Pennsylvania in Milwaukee

Milwaukee - Dec. 19. - It is reported that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will erect shops in this city, and in support of this statement it is also said that the Northern Pacific and Wisconsin Central Lines, as merged under the Villard direction, are to be allied with the Pennsylvania Company, so as to secure a new transcontinental line.  Before the Northern Pacific secured a lease of the WIsconsin Central the latter had acquired title to most of the property necessary to give it terminal facilities in the heart of Milwaukee.  It is claimed that the Pennsylvania Company will be running into Milwaukee over the Central's tracks before the end of next year and that what was regarded as inexplicable folly bt the Northern Pacific people in antagonizing other St. Paul lines by taking the Wisconsin Central will be shown to have been a well-conceived and carefully-execuated plan for a new through line independent of all others.

NY Times Dec 20, 1890