[milwaukee-electric] Re: West Allis Junction/Belton

[Gary Schnabl]

You misspelled Capitol Drive on one reference.

You omitted the CNW hamlet Riley, just west of Verona. It had two hotels 
once. Mostly railroad families lived there. An old general store and bar 
remain, and I rarely jammed there with my 5-string banjo.

A clerk and his son, an engineer, lived in Riley and worked out of the 
Madison freight office before it was demoted drastically after the CNW 
rationalized during the late 1970s. I picked up the CNW crews 
occasionally at Rock Springs or Janesville and brought them to Madison 
when they doglawed.

Gary

On 7/21/2011 1:41 AM, Don Ross wrote:
> The C&NW had a line from Milwaukee to Madison through West
> Allis.  They had another line that ran from Milwaukee to Adams and
> went via Wiscona.  The built a new line, the Belt Line from West
> Allis to Butler and then Tower BJ.  The junction for the new Belt
> Line was at Belton..
> You might want to look at the other points on the Belt Line
> http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/dr003.htm
> You might look at the pages on the TM and they might answer some of
> your question.  And they might bring up other questions.
> http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/indextm.htm
>
> Don R
>
>
> At 12:05 AM 7/21/2011, you wrote:
>> What was the significance of the name Belton? Often, the owners of the
>> railroads personally named their towns, depots, yard names, etc. The
>> Confederate general at Petersburg, VA--William Mahone
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Mahone>--and his wife named many
>> Virginian railroad towns. His railroad at Petersburg evolved into what
>> is the Norfolk Southern today.
>> When I got drafted in 1968, I was stationed at the HHC (Headquarters and
>> Headquarters Company) of the Quartermaster Corps, both at S-1
>> headquarters and as a TV director, essentially a civilian job at Fort
>> Lee (Peterrsburg), VA. Better there than in Vietnam: two 18-hole golf
>> courses, etc...
>>
>> Gary
>>


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Gary Schnabl
Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is...

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