Monday Milwaukee Mystery - March 8, 2010

[Yance]

Here is another Milwaukee Mystery photo and for anyone familiar with the city's train system of the past, this should be easy. How's that for a big hint? This was in the late 1950s and is probably all that needs to be said so will leave it at that. Good luck in your guessing!

[jasondavies]

I'll guess 25th between St. Paul and Clybourn.

[cgodfrey]

I like the 25th St overpass guess.

But just for fun, lets put another horse in the race...

Prospect Avenue, between Woodstock and Windsor?

[eddie]

No, i can't be on the eastside. This is obviously a railroad right of way, but Prospect/Windsor is the former Chicago and North Western; this is an electric railroad, so it must be The Milwaukee Electric. This is a good one, Yance.

[Yance]

jasondavies has the correct answer. This was taken in the late fifties after the demise of the electric line and before the construction of the freeways.

[just1paul]

I could have sworn it was 26th street... time for an old aerial image.. Yance is there an uncropped version of this picture?

edit: I forgot that the 25th street bridge was that much of a slope.