[milwaukee-electric] Re: 25th Anniversary: "The Trolley at East Troy"

[Don Leistikow]

Gary S:   Am backing up, on your posts.    

The TMER&L private right of way ran west of 89th street coming off of
Lapham street.  Crossing 92nd street the TMER&L prow ran alongside of
the C&NW tracks, all the way to Waukesha.                          

Consruction of the Local Rapid Tramsit Line began on the long curve east
to north, in 1926.   Note that construction began at the west end,
running north on a line of 100th street, passing under Greenfiled
avenue.  Coninuing north, to the  Schlinger Avenue stop, where it began
the swing northeast, with stops at Adler and 92nd streets befpre
completing the curve to an alignment on the base line marking the
division between the north and south regions of Milwaukee County.    

Building eastward on a fill, the RTL crossed 84th street and stop, the
additionsl stops were built at 79th, 76th, 73rd, 68th, Soldiers Home
(52nd street alignment), on a downward elevation passing under 60th
street, Hawley Road and a new concrete bridge over the RTl.    

A lolng wooden trestle was built across the Menonomee Valley then the
porw passed along the north side of the bluff, surfacing  and then
entering 35th street, truning north.  Two blocks ahead, the RTL cars
turned east on Clybourn street to Sixth street, thence north one block
to Michigan street and east to the Public Service Building, its
Terminal.                   

The final leg from 40th street alignment, was on the south side of the
bluff, skirting the bluff and ultimaetly operating in a long cut, it
entered city streets between 8th and 7th onto Clybourn.  A half mile of
the same street running, brought the RTL trains to the PSB.                                      

The bridges over the Milwaukee Road tracks, the River and 43rd street,
were built (west to east), in he same 1926  tp 1928 time frame.  Service
over this new line, began on June 10th, 1928.                 

All this was accomplished between 1926 and 1930.                                                 

Don L  Leistikow