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

[Ken and Tracie]

Yeah, it was empty when I visited it. Became quite derelict in such a short 
period of time, like former United States Disciplinary Barracks on North 
Hopkins did, after the Army moved the Reserve unit to the former Nike 
buildings on the south end of the property, circa 1969.

K.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Greig" <sbgreig_m1 at yahoo.com>
To: <milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 7:53 AM
Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Name of the Milwaukee Train Station During 
1969


> Yes, give or take a year on the C&NW.  I'd have to check my copy of "The 
> 400 Story" to be sure.  The lakefront station sat vacant for a few years 
> (and had at least one fire) before the City of Milwaukee put pressure on 
> the railroad and it was razed.
>
> A rotten shame that it was.
>
> --- On Thu, 3/17/11, Ken and Tracie <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Ken and Tracie <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com>
>> Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Name of the Milwaukee Train Station 
>> During 1969
>> To: milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org
>> Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011, 9:47 AM
>> So Scott, both railroads used the new
>> station from the very beginning, in
>> 1965?
>>
>> I remember seeing the C&NW station not long before it
>> was torn down.
>>
>> K.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Scott Greig" <sbgreig_m1 at yahoo.com>
>> To: <milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 7:29 AM
>> Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Name of the Milwaukee
>> Train Station During
>> 1969
>>
>>
>> >I think the C&NW station on the lakefront closed
>> around 1965. It was
>> >demolished in 1968.
>> >
>> > --- On Thu, 3/17/11, Ken and Tracie <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> From: Ken and Tracie <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com>
>> >> Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Name of the
>> Milwaukee Train Station
>> >> During 1969
>> >> To: milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org
>> >> Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011, 9:27 AM
>> >> Thanks for the replies, people.
>> >>
>> >> My family called it "The Milwaukee Road Station",
>> too. But
>> >> I believe at some
>> >> point, circa 1967(?), the C&NW station on the
>> lakefront
>> >> closed and their
>> >> trains also used the new station on St.Paul
>> Avenue.
>> >>
>> >> So what was it known as during 1969? Was it still
>> called
>> >> "The Milwaukee Road
>> >> Station" by 1969?
>> >>
>> >> K.
>> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> >> From: "Y Marti" <yance at oldmilwaukee.net>
>> >> To: <milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org>;
>> >> "Gary Schnabl"
>> >> <gSchnabl at SWDetroit.com>
>> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 2:40 PM
>> >> Subject: [milwaukee-electric] Re: Name of the
>> Milwaukee
>> >> Train Station During
>> >> 1969
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > The picture would have been soon after the
>> Public
>> >> Museum was open in 1963.
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>> >> > Quoting Gary Schnabl <gSchnabl at SWDetroit.com>:
>> >> >
>> >> > This 1950s or 1960s aerial photo just barely
>> shows the
>> >> luggage
>> >> > company, the subway entrance, and some
>> visible
>> >> remnants of the PROW
>> >> > between 7th
>> >> > and 8th Streets in the right-bottom corner.
>> Can
>> >> anybody peg the year of
>> >> > the photo better than the description on the
>> retro
>> >> Milwaukee website?
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