Watching the Train Peerless Confectionery Lakewood at Schubert Chicago Jan. 2 2007
Heading north on street trackage on Lakewood Avenue.
Chicago Terminal is no more as of 2019 and the last train to operate north of Clybourn was to retrieve gondolas parked on the former Peerless spur in 2009. Peerless itself went out of business in May of 2007.
Eighth and last in a series of screen grabs I will post from video I took on the first day of Chicago Terminal operations as it made its way from the UP North Avenue Yard where it was a tenant on its way to switch Finkl Steel and Peerless Confectionery. I was a guest of Ed Ellis for the first two days of operations to document it. I also wound up acting as a pilot for the crew as CP left behind no instructions.
Images are from converted from DVD format and cleaned up as much as possible in Photoshop. It was a dreary, overcast day with rain on and off again, and the SW8 engine in which we were riding was rocking back and forth which made taking videos a challenge.
If you want to see a video of mine that shows CP working this line go to-
studio.youtube.com/video/pQXSrwYdoQk/edit
Due to conversations in the cab that the crew probably didn't want being made public I am not going to share the full video of this trip plus I do not feel like taking the time to edit out the audio. Enjoy the still images instead from those first two days in this album.
www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/albums/72157704913274794
Watching the Train Peerless Confectionery Lakewood at Schubert Chicago Jan. 2 2007
Heading north on street trackage on Lakewood Avenue.
Chicago Terminal is no more as of 2019 and the last train to operate north of Clybourn was to retrieve gondolas parked on the former Peerless spur in 2009. Peerless itself went out of business in May of 2007.
Eighth and last in a series of screen grabs I will post from video I took on the first day of Chicago Terminal operations as it made its way from the UP North Avenue Yard where it was a tenant on its way to switch Finkl Steel and Peerless Confectionery. I was a guest of Ed Ellis for the first two days of operations to document it. I also wound up acting as a pilot for the crew as CP left behind no instructions.
Images are from converted from DVD format and cleaned up as much as possible in Photoshop. It was a dreary, overcast day with rain on and off again, and the SW8 engine in which we were riding was rocking back and forth which made taking videos a challenge.
If you want to see a video of mine that shows CP working this line go to-
studio.youtube.com/video/pQXSrwYdoQk/edit
Due to conversations in the cab that the crew probably didn't want being made public I am not going to share the full video of this trip plus I do not feel like taking the time to edit out the audio. Enjoy the still images instead from those first two days in this album.
www.flickr.com/photos/39092860@N06/albums/72157704913274794