Green Spur

Posted by tom burke on 24 June 2013

Here are some photos of the former Union Pacific "Green Spur" on Milwaukee's South Side which was originally part of the C&NW. All of the photos are from June 20, 2013. UP Trains ran as recently as the late 2000s on this one-mile line to the Recycle America plant on the south end at 2101 West Morgan Street until this division of Waste Management moved. You can see that farther north the rails have been lifted already. I did not see any STB postings about this line being abandoned so it's either (1) not technically abandoned but out of service or (2) it's considered an industrial spur and therefore exempt from a formal notice which I doubt. For more information on the Green Line, see these images of a train operating on the Green Spur in 2007: http://www.fuzzyworld3.com/railroad/up01/ja.html Additionally, this site has some historical aerials and modeling information: http://cnwmodeling.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-green-line-in-1957.html