Switching Peerless Confectionery Lakewood at Diversey Chicago May 21 1987
This crew is busy swapping out a load of corn syrup in a tank car for an empty covered hopper that used to contain sugar. Peerless closed in May of 2007 and street running on Chicago's North Side is now just a memory.
The partly paved over spur went to the Continental Baking plant that was torn down a few years earlier.
This MP15 still sports Milwaukee Road markings and has not had the Soo Line treatment yet of being converted into the "bandit" scheme where the MILW markings were painted over in black and SOO stenciled over it in white over black.
This train is on the former MILW Chicago & Evanston branch line which by 1984 had been cut back to Diversey with just enough room to shove a couple of freight cars at at time down the Peerless spur.
This image is a scan of a print taken with 126-format Kodak film.
Switching Peerless Confectionery Lakewood at Diversey Chicago May 21 1987
This crew is busy swapping out a load of corn syrup in a tank car for an empty covered hopper that used to contain sugar. Peerless closed in May of 2007 and street running on Chicago's North Side is now just a memory.
The partly paved over spur went to the Continental Baking plant that was torn down a few years earlier.
This MP15 still sports Milwaukee Road markings and has not had the Soo Line treatment yet of being converted into the "bandit" scheme where the MILW markings were painted over in black and SOO stenciled over it in white over black.
This train is on the former MILW Chicago & Evanston branch line which by 1984 had been cut back to Diversey with just enough room to shove a couple of freight cars at at time down the Peerless spur.
This image is a scan of a print taken with 126-format Kodak film.