Taking a Break-CP and Peerless Confectionery Employees Chat Outside Peerless Confectionery Lakewood at Schubert Chicago July 29 2004
The conductor stops to chat with employees of Peerless Confectionery while picking up an empty tank car. Peerless usually gave a box or two of their candy to the crews of the Milwaukee Road, and later, Soo/CP, and finally, Chicago Terminal, each time their trains stopped by. See the comment below for a picture.
Note the overhead gantry that would swing out and which was added in late years for Peerless employees who attached to a harness when walking on top of tank cars or covered hoppers.
Peerless closed in May of 2007 and I could only document two runs of Chicago Terminal up there after it took over operations of the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line from Soo/CP in January of 2007. Does anyone else have photos of Chicago Terminal going up to Peerless?
This area has completely gentrified since then though track still remains in the middle of Lakewood-some 11 years after the last train-a load of gondolas that Chicago Terminal shoved onto the former Peerless spur to assert its rights.
Taking a Break-CP and Peerless Confectionery Employees Chat Outside Peerless Confectionery Lakewood at Schubert Chicago July 29 2004
The conductor stops to chat with employees of Peerless Confectionery while picking up an empty tank car. Peerless usually gave a box or two of their candy to the crews of the Milwaukee Road, and later, Soo/CP, and finally, Chicago Terminal, each time their trains stopped by. See the comment below for a picture.
Note the overhead gantry that would swing out and which was added in late years for Peerless employees who attached to a harness when walking on top of tank cars or covered hoppers.
Peerless closed in May of 2007 and I could only document two runs of Chicago Terminal up there after it took over operations of the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line from Soo/CP in January of 2007. Does anyone else have photos of Chicago Terminal going up to Peerless?
This area has completely gentrified since then though track still remains in the middle of Lakewood-some 11 years after the last train-a load of gondolas that Chicago Terminal shoved onto the former Peerless spur to assert its rights.