These were taken between about 1942 and the end of 1947. Scenes in order: *Two views from northbound train departing Kenosha for Milwaukee. *Southbound Chicago & North Western freight train, between Racine and Milwaukee. *Speeding along northbound between Racine and Milwaukee. *View from northbound train in south side Milwaukee street (probably Howell Ave.) with passing southbound interurban. *2nd and Michigan, downtown Milwaukee, as an interurban from the west pulls into the Public Service Building terminal. Note that the train is completely empty--rain or shine, Milwaukee Electric cars ALWAYS unloaded out in the street. *3rd and Michigan, with a duplex interurban departing the Public Service Building and heading west on Michigan. *View from the rear of a westbound car on the Rapid Transit Line, at about 16th Street. *View from the same train at about 37th Street. *West Junction (100th just south of Greenfield Avenue) with a Local Rapid Transit car turning on the Junction turnback loop to return to Milwaukee. *West Junction again, with another Local car switching over to the Junction turnback/Hales Corners connection track. *A Waukesha Limited cruises south through the Junction and turns to head west for Waukesha. *A Chicago & North Western freight train passes beneath the Hales Corners line at the Junction and heads west. *A quick overview of West Junction from the Hales Corners branch. *A Local car turns on the West Junction loop. *An inbound car from Hales Corners crosses over the Chicago & North Western, and stops for a signal just outside of West Junction. *Having a clear signal, the Local car continues north into the Junction. *An inbound train from Waukesha turns north into the Junction. *A rush hour Local Rapid Transit car takes the loop track to return to downtown Milwaukee. *Another Waukesha train skips West Junction and turns to head west. *Another Local car at West Junction. *Interior of one of the 1102-04 Local Rapid Transit cars. Not as nice as the rest of the 1100-series cars seen. *Head end view from an inbound (eastbound) Rapid Transit Line train at about 25th Street. *Outbound North Shore Line Electroliner leaves downtown Milwaukee terminal at 6th/Clybourn/St. Paul Ave. *North Shore Line "dinky" local streetcar outside the terminal. *Two views of outbound Milwaukee Electric cars at 6th and Clybourn.

PA railfan here. Wow, Milwaukee had some MAJOR trolley infrastructure here, hard to believe they gave it all up. Esp because I'm sure some of the rural areas seen here are now fully suburban & would benefit from rapid-trans service.

When I lived in Milwaukee from 1986-2000, I was a member of the East Troy Electric Railroad from 1988-1999. That is the least remnant of the TMER&L RR. I was able to meet some of the men who rode the TM, and were quite familiar with the railroad. My late friend Tom Matola modeled it in O Gauge, and one of the young men at East Troy had a grandfather was a motorman on the TM. I am sure there are some railfans of the TM still around who could add to the locations shown in this video. I enjoyed it very much.

Some of those interurban cars were articulated. A concept ahead of it's time.

Very awesome to see these historic images. I live close to the remains of the NSL near 6th and Oklahoma ave, love seeing what once was.

very fortunate to have lived in the midst of COUNTLESS interurbans stretching inland off the Malaga coast, stock as old as these too 🍷 more thrilling than either the metro or the Expo-Express, both of which were then brand new...

diaphragm linking those articulated cars together must've been snazzily modern

LOL! Someone chucks garbage out from the train stairway at 6:50. Too funny.

Amazing!......I wasnt aware of such heavy articulated inter-urbans.......wish I had been there!

I don't think I've ever actually seen the TM in action before, thank you for sharing.

Great footage, thank you for sharing this

Beautiful

So excited to see the Electroliner in action... until someone opened the door and threw out garbage in front of the cop. See 6:47. Guess it's not just people nowadays.

Do you have any more of the TMER&L? I'm searching for pictures of the inside of the Kenosha station that was built in 1932.

Lived in Milwaukee 1949-1953

Anyone know what street the Ben Franklin store was on in Milwaukee in mid 40-50s?

oof! thanks for showing these...seemingly prescriptively, too few scenes of the continent's sprawling interurbans get featured hereabouts 🍸

Ex Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Artic unit from .48 to 1:01.

wasn't there some prairie interurban that had neared the 100MPH threshhold?

Any one know or give credit to the photographers?

Now Milwaukee has a trolley to nowhere!

Were interurbans just regular streetcars?

What a tragic shame it was all scrapped and junked. You can blame corporate greed for that. City after city, including Milwaukee is spending billions of dollars to correct that mistake and replace modern streetcar and light rail lines.