CP Heading North C&E Line Lakewood at Schubert Chicago September 18 2002
The only time I caught this MP15 in its very unusual paint scheme was on an early fall day way back in 2002 on the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line. The crew was traveling light to pick up an empty tank car from Peerless Confectionery.
Note the battered Griswold crossing signal-the Milwaukee Road was its largest customer. The Milwaukee Road was able to successfully petition the ICC in 1979 to stop maintaining signals on the C&E due to frequent vandalism in the pre-gentrification era. In return it was reduced to 10MPH speeds and flagging major crossings.
Less than five years later this scene would just be a memory as Peerless went out of business in May of 2007 and with it freight service on this stretch of the C&E by CP successor Chicago Terminal.
CP Heading North C&E Line Lakewood at Schubert Chicago September 18 2002
The only time I caught this MP15 in its very unusual paint scheme was on an early fall day way back in 2002 on the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line. The crew was traveling light to pick up an empty tank car from Peerless Confectionery.
Note the battered Griswold crossing signal-the Milwaukee Road was its largest customer. The Milwaukee Road was able to successfully petition the ICC in 1979 to stop maintaining signals on the C&E due to frequent vandalism in the pre-gentrification era. In return it was reduced to 10MPH speeds and flagging major crossings.
Less than five years later this scene would just be a memory as Peerless went out of business in May of 2007 and with it freight service on this stretch of the C&E by CP successor Chicago Terminal.