[milwaukee-electric] Re: 9th street

[Gary Schnabl]

Couldn't the ramp remain and the eastern block (700s) and former ROW be 
used for extra storage or what not? LCL public-access team tracks in the 
700 block for freight?
Team tracks were very plentiful near here, as Detroit once had about 100 
freight yards. Some of their concrete platforms still exist--far from 
any tracks today.
http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Stations/CountyStations/WayneStations/WayneCountyMenu.htm

I commandeered for my own use the URLs --LivernoisYard.com and 
LivernoisYards.com--for two of my mostly dormant registered domains, 
seeing that I reside within Livernois Yard/Junction Yard. The railroads 
came close to using eminent domain over a decade ago in order to acquire 
our one-block dead-end street until the Michigan Supreme Court removed 
eminent-domain powers from any private-sector taking.

The original plan was to build at Livernois Yard a huge intermodal 
facility--the DIFT, Detroit Intermodal Freight Terminal--but the 
financial reasons for employing option #1, the mass taking of mucho land 
and homes and businesses, withered with Detroit's sick economy. Option 
#4--the do-nothing status quo option--was employed by the CSX and the 
Norfolk Southern railroads. CSX spent big bucks and built their own 
intermodal freight terminal a few hundred feet away on their own 
original land. And the Norfolk Southern--who got the bigger chunk of 
Conrail (60%?)--is still rationalizing its operations and is trying to 
sell off its entire Michigan facilities.

It's actually quite quiet around here, considering that the-once state's 
largest freight yard is located right next door... Every so often a 
container is dropped noisily or a whistle blows at the only two grade 
crossings anywhere near here--on Central or Lonyo Streets. I can set my 
clocks by the whistles of the six daily Amtrak runs. Everything else was 
built above grade.



Gary


On 3/19/2011 10:35 PM, Larry Allan wrote:
> I would assume that if the Subway was completed and the wooden ramp was
> removed, that the Steel Structure ( T-6, T-7) would have been extended East
> to the 8th Street Viaduct. The tracks would then extend east and curve north
> to connect to the old ROW. These tracks would now allow for freight from the
> north and south divisions of the Line. See attached diagram.
-- 

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

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