[milwaukee-electric] Re: Name of the Milwaukee Train Station During 1969

[Don L. Leistikow]

Gary S and list:   No... the Abel & Bach building fronted on St.Paul
avenue with 10th street on the east side and Hiberna the north side.
The wast line of the Abel & Bach building was next to a transfer table
on the east line of TMER&L's 12th street yard.  That was long gone after
TMER&L gave up LCL (lsess than carload) trafffic  about 1939 or so.                                      

East of 8th street, there was nothing but a couple of buildings facing
Clybourn street and the double tracks that brought the RTL cars over to
the alley and north to Clybourn where the private right of way, ended.                                                      

The Subway opening was built in concert with the construction of the
final pahse of the RTLine from 40th street to its exit onto Clybourn.
The subway ended on the west line of the alley.                                        

As for the bridge structure that carried the tracks aroung Abel and
Bach, I believe that TMER&L was simply sticking to the 'no grade
crossings' format that they employed when building the new RTL from West
Junction, east, which began in 1926.                                                        

The south line of St.Paul avenue and east of 13th street, hosted
Cutler-Hammer and east of that was a big black building that housed
National Enameling & Stamping  Company (Nesco).  A couple of small
builidngs were east of that and housed a Tavern and a Barber Shop, as I
recall.       

I hope that this information will calrify your memory of how that area
looked, back then.                                                 

Don L.