[milwaukee-electric] Re: 9th street

[Scott Greig]

The track leading down to the subway-to-be was essentially a long tail track, for the visible yard tracks at 10th Street and additional tracks no longer present in this view.  Originally there were tracks for express cars that ran under and alongside the Shelf; by this time the express service was long gone and the dock space was being used by Motor Transport Company.
--- On Thu, 3/17/11, Gary Schnabl <gSchnabl at SWDetroit.com> wrote:

From: Gary Schnabl <gSchnabl at SWDetroit.com>
Subject: [milwaukee-electric] 9th street
To: milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011, 6:36 PM

Could somebody discus where exactly the non-ROW tracks at the 
interurban/Aldrich Chemical Building went when east of 9th Street, as 
seen in this photo: 
http://www.thetransportco.com/imagelib/sitebuilder/misc/show_image.html?linkedwidth=actual&linkpath=http://www.thetransportco.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/mrtramp001.jpg&target=tlx_new 
<http://www.thetransportco.com/imagelib/sitebuilder/misc/show_image.html?linkedwidth=actual&linkpath=http://www.thetransportco.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/mrtramp001.jpg&target=tlx_new>?
Did the track or tracks just to the south of the ROW there head into the 
subway? And the tracks at grade? Did they ever extend to the east beyond 
8th Street. I saw a photo once at 8th and Hibernia, but could not be 
sure if there were extra tracks south of the ROW, or was that track just 
the other ROW track?

And what were the other buildings on both sides of Hibernia in this 
photo, other than the obvious Aldrich building?
-- 

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

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