[milwaukee-electric] Re: Another C&NW Question

[Don Ross]

Shore Line freight came from Butler.  They came from the Belt Line to 
Wiscona and then to The Shore Line.  The only traffic left through 
Shorewood was passenger trains.

I left Milwaukee in January 1960.  (51 years ago??????)

Don R

At 10:06 AM 7/22/2011, you wrote:
>Why did the C&NW abandon the trackage between Lakeshore Junction (at Capitol
>Drive/Lake Street), through Shorewood to their Shore Line?  Why did they
>decide to send traffic to the northwest towards Wiscona, then east to regain
>the Shore Line?
>
>Also, what the routing for northbound C&NW passenger trains staring in 1966,
>when they started using the Milwaukee Road depot?
>
>K.