26.5.07

IF KUHLMAN MADE BICYCLES. The Milwaukee Northern and The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light right-of-way through much of Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, is now the Ozaukee Interurban Trail. My dad had the opportunity to ride the interurban cars on this line and he reported that the bridge at Knellsville, just north of Port Washington, was a tight fit for the electric cars. This bridge is a Gorman Thomas home run from the interstate highway, and it's a bit of a surprise to find it still in place nearly 70 years after the electric cars stopped running.


North of the bridge, the line pursues a straight if not exactly level course toward Belgium and Cedar Grove.


Just north of the Knellsville bridge is a building housing a number of light manufacturing enterprises. At one time that building was a cheese factory, and the interurban had a spur track to serve it.


These pictures are from a brief walking survey of the area. A more comprehensive bicycle ride is in order, particularly as the trail appears to use the interurban right of way along Canyon Creek, the easy climb (but still a climb) away from lake level at Port Washington.

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