Man Atop Covered Hopper Outside Peerless Confection-Lakewood Avenue Chicago May 21 1987
Scans from 126 format negatives rediscovered in my collection and cleaned up as much as possible. Some deterioration of the negatives over the decades in storage. Due to the historical nature I am posting them.
Part of a series capturing the activity involved at Peerless as the employees and train crew worked to release an empty hopper that had contained sugar and receive new tank cars of corn syrup. In this view a man is on top of the tank car without a safety harness which would be added in later years with an overhead gantry system.
Peerless Confection was a favorite of railroad photographers as the last rail served customer on the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston branch line north of Clybourn Avenue from 1984 to its closing in 2007. In its final decades of operation it was serviced by the MILW, Soo/CP, and Chicago Terminal. Several blocks of street running were needed to reach Peerless.
Peerless stretched from Diversey on the north to Schubert on the south, occupying the entire city block on the east side of Lakewood. It was torn down by 2008 then replaced by condo buildings.
See my Peerless album for more pictures over the decades.
Man Atop Covered Hopper Outside Peerless Confection-Lakewood Avenue Chicago May 21 1987
Scans from 126 format negatives rediscovered in my collection and cleaned up as much as possible. Some deterioration of the negatives over the decades in storage. Due to the historical nature I am posting them.
Part of a series capturing the activity involved at Peerless as the employees and train crew worked to release an empty hopper that had contained sugar and receive new tank cars of corn syrup. In this view a man is on top of the tank car without a safety harness which would be added in later years with an overhead gantry system.
Peerless Confection was a favorite of railroad photographers as the last rail served customer on the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston branch line north of Clybourn Avenue from 1984 to its closing in 2007. In its final decades of operation it was serviced by the MILW, Soo/CP, and Chicago Terminal. Several blocks of street running were needed to reach Peerless.
Peerless stretched from Diversey on the north to Schubert on the south, occupying the entire city block on the east side of Lakewood. It was torn down by 2008 then replaced by condo buildings.
See my Peerless album for more pictures over the decades.