page_title: Mequon, Wisconsin
section_title: Transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Mequon, Wisconsin / Transportation
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: electricrailwayr18amer (find matches) Title: Electric railway review Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Publisher: Chicago&#160;: Wilson Co Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Milwaukee Northern Railway—Map of Territory Served, Show/-ing Operating and Proposed Lines. Milwaukee Northern Railway—Details of Pole Top Construc-tion for Single and Duplicate Transmission Circuits. with Sheboygan and Fond du Lac. Reference to the map of Railway were begun on October 10, 1905, and during the twothe route will show the territory which the completed system years following all franchises, including that for entrance towill serve. At the present time one track from Milwaukee Milwaukee, were secured, the construction work completed Text Appearing After Image: Milwaukee Northern Railway—Viaduct over St. Paul Railway Tracks and Cedarburg Highway. to Port Washington is in operation. About 75 per cent of theconstruction work has been completed on the Sheboyganextension and a second track between Milwaukee andCedarburg. The distance from Port Washington to Sheboy-gan is 27.7 miles. All surveys and engineering work havebeen completed on the 43-mile division indicated by the dotted and the road placed in operation. The preliminary work andthe financing and construction work were executed by theComstock-Haigh-Walker Company, Detroit, under the directsupervision of F. W. Walker as engineer. The Milwaukee Northern company is affiliated with theSheboygan Light Power &amp; Railway Company and the opera- December 7, 1907. ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW 883 lion of both roads is under the management of Ernest Gonzen-bach, who has been general manager of the Sheboygan prop-erties during the past three years. Roadbed and Bridges. With the exception of 3.25 rou Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Mequon is the largest city in Ozaukee County, in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, and the third-largest city in Wisconsin by land area. Located on Lake Michigan's western shore with significant commercial developments along Interstate 43, the community is a suburb in the Milwaukee metropolitan area. Despite being an incorporated city, approximately half of Mequon's land is undeveloped and agriculture plays a significant role in the local economy. At the time of the 2010 census the population was 23,132.
  When the first white settlers arrived in the 1830s, the Mequon area was inhabited by the Menominee, Potawatomi, and Sauk people. In the 1840s, German immigrants settled in the community, building farms and hydropowered mills along the Milwaukee River. Much of the community remained rural, while Thiensville developed as a market town along the local railway, providing services to the farmers. Thiensville incorporated as a village in 1910. Mequon remained rural in the early 20th century but experienced significant population growth during the suburbanization that followed World War II. The community incorporated as a city in 1957 to avoid annexation by the City of Milwaukee.
context_section_description: Interstate 43 runs north-south through the City of Mequon with exits 85 and 89 providing access to the municipality.
  Mequon has limited public transit compared with larger cities. Ozaukee County and the Milwaukee County Transit System run the Route 143 commuter bus, also known as the "Ozaukee County Express," to Milwaukee via Interstate 43. The bus stops at five locations along Port Washington Road in Mequon, Monday through Friday with limited hours corresponding to peak commute times. Ozaukee County Transit Services' Shared Ride Taxi is the public transit option for traveling to sites not directly accessible from the interstate. The taxis operate seven days a week and make connections to Washington County Transit and Milwaukee County Routes 12, 49 and 42u.
  Unlike some nearby cities and villages, the City of Mequon has large areas of rural and undeveloped land without sidewalks for pedestrian traffic. However, the Ozaukee Interurban Trail for pedestrian and bicycle use runs north-south through the city and connects Mequon to the neighboring community of Cedarburg in the north and Brown Deer in the south, where the trail connects to Milwaukee County's Oak Leaf Trail. The Ozaukee Interurban Trail continues north to Oostburg in Sheboygan County. The trail was formerly an interurban passenger rail line that ran from Milwaukee to Sheboygan. The train was in operation from 1907 to 1948, when it fell into disuse following World War II. The old rail line was converted into the present recreational trail in the 1990s.
  The Wisconsin Central Ltd. railroad, a subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway, operates a freight rail line parallel to the Ozaukee Interurban Trail. The Union Pacific Railroad runs parallel to Interstate 43 in the city. Mequon currently does not have passenger train service.
caption: The Milwaukee Interurban Line built a bridge over the Milwaukee Road tracks in northern Mequon near Cedarburg Road, circa 1906. The bridge has been demolished, but some of the concrete footings remain along the Ozaukee Interurban Trail.
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