Switching Hansen Storage 541 E. Erie Street Milwaukee WI December 1995

            This scanned slide shows a different angle than one I previously uploaded and is higher quality thanks to switching from a Wolverine to a Canon scanner. 

All railroad operations by UP in this area east of the Milwaukee River ended by the early 2000s and it is now the scene of rapid gentrification. 

My note on the original slide states it is working a paper company but in thinking about it and the location-Hansen Storage-I believe the boxcars were full of newsprint that would eventually be trucked across downtown Milwaukee to the Journal-Sentinel's press which was not located on a railroad line. 

Predecessor Milwaukee Journal used to get newsprint off the Milwaukee Road Beer Line on team tracks located at its far southern end which were then trucked to the printing press. 

After the Beer Line was abandoned circa 1985 south of Gibson Yard the newspaper needed another nearby location to receive newsprint so this site was probably where it was handled until the Journal Sentinel opened their new printing press in West Milwaukee in 2003 that was located on the Menomonee Belt and serviced by CP. 

That printing press will close in May of 2022 and newspapers will be printed in Peoria at another Gannett owned plant and trucked up to Milwaukee some 300 miles each day!

Taken on: March 26, 2022

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