--- In BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com, LaVerne Andreessen
<LWAndreessen@f...> wrote:
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> baton580 wrote:
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> > --- In BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com, LaVerne Andreessen
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> > > > CMStP&P depot is built of stone and is further South. That
> > > > was so it could serve trains crossing the river on their bridge.
> I, too, well recall Marquette r/h, and the presence of Milwaukee
> engines. I recall many visits to the Marquette r/h and the
> affable Everett Moody who was the foreman. However, I am
> interested in PDC, not MQ.
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> > > Where are these buildings located? West of the downtown area and
> > > north of the hiway bridge? Or, south of the bridge?? Or??
Thanks.
> >
> > The tourist center is north of the US 18 bridge.
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> The PDC tourist center? It is at the east end of the bridge,
> located between the e/b and w/b hiway 18 sections.
>
This is the State of Wisconsin Welcome Center. I was speaking of a
building(s) that are/were privately owned at the west end of Blackhawk
Ave. that were to be a tourist center-gift shops-tavern/restaurant
etc. in a restored old stone warehouse bldg. located along the
ex-Milw. tracks. There were also passenger rail cars on the siding
adjacent and close to the levee where the Delta Queen and other Queen
have docked when on upper river excursions. All were intended to tie
in with the Villa Louis tourist area and park and give some life to
St. Feriole Island. Much of this with a railroad theme. There was
quite a bit of railroad equipment (rolling stock and other types,
maybe even a turntable IIRC) moved in to this area at one time.
However, it is all gone now.
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> What I wish to know is this: Where are the former Milwaukee
> buildings, which Russ cited, are located in PDC. Only PDC. Not
> Marquette.
>
AFAIK there are no Milw. buildings in PdC and haven't been in years,
if ever in our times. I grew up 10 miles from Prairie in the 50's and
have been there countless times in each of the succeeding years since
while visiting a parent that lives there. I prowled around in all the
nooks and crannys of the area and I do not know of and can't recall
any Milw. bldgs in PdC other than the passenger depot you previously
noted.
Bob Plaehn
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