Interesting, so now this news item makes more sense. Before it was that the City of Milwaukee was buying former Wisconsin Gas Company property as a potential station stop next to Komatsu Mining HQ being built in case the former proposal to run Commutter trains ever gets off the ground between Kenosha North to Milwaukee. However now it is revealed the purchase has another potential purpose and that is to maintain the site where the former rail connection took place between the former Milwaukee Road and ex-C&NW lakefront line for future rail commutter service over the ex-C&NW line…which I think is smart move since it is a small parcel of land where the tracks are very close together.
The property in question runs just North of Greenfield Avenue where both railroad lines cross Greenfield Avenue in South Milwaukee. The purchase would maintain the ex-C&NW lakefront line access to the Milwaukee Intermodal Station. Here are excerpts from the updated article in the Milwaukee Business News…
"Wisconsin Gas also owns less than an acre north of Greenfield Avenue between a set of railroad tracks. Milwaukee has negotiated an agreement to buy that land from Wisconsin Gas for a potential commuter rail stop, according to an email from Milwaukee development commissioner Rocky Marcoux