Covered Hopper on Spur Alongside Peerless Confection Lakewood at Schubert Chicago Summer 2006
This idyllic scene would undergo radical changes in less than two years.
A few months later CP Rail would turn over operations to Iowa Pacific's Chicago Terminal subsidiary up to Peerless and other industries on former Milwaukee Road trackage.
Then the following spring in 2007 Peerless would shut down. A short time later both the former Continental Baking/Hostess building and the Peerless complex would be torn down.
Covered Hopper on Spur Alongside Peerless Confection Lakewood at Schubert Chicago Summer 2006
This idyllic scene would undergo radical changes in less than two years.
A few months later CP Rail would turn over operations to Iowa Pacific's Chicago Terminal subsidiary up to Peerless and other industries on former Milwaukee Road trackage.
Then the following spring in 2007 Peerless would shut down. A short time later both the former Continental Baking/Hostess building and the Peerless complex would be torn down.