Box of Candy for the CP Crew-Peerless Confectionery Lakewood by Diversey March 2006
I was lucky to catch this CP job taking a load of sugar up to Peerless Confectionery on a grey day in March of 2006. Within nine months shortline Chicago Terminal would take over operations on the former Milwaukee Road North Side lines then in a little over a year Peerless would be out of business.
It was a tradition going back to the Milwaukee Road era that Peerless gave train crews a complementary box of candy. When I joined Chicago Terminal on their first day of operations in January of 2007 I noticed boxes of Peerless candy in the UP North Avenue Yard office which CP crews shared with their UP peers. I was given some to take home.
Box of Candy for the CP Crew-Peerless Confectionery Lakewood by Diversey March 2006
I was lucky to catch this CP job taking a load of sugar up to Peerless Confectionery on a grey day in March of 2006. Within nine months shortline Chicago Terminal would take over operations on the former Milwaukee Road North Side lines then in a little over a year Peerless would be out of business.
It was a tradition going back to the Milwaukee Road era that Peerless gave train crews a complementary box of candy. When I joined Chicago Terminal on their first day of operations in January of 2007 I noticed boxes of Peerless candy in the UP North Avenue Yard office which CP crews shared with their UP peers. I was given some to take home.