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CSS&SB Standard Steel 28 at about Roosevelt Road in Chicago on an unknown day in August 1978, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
CSS&SB Alco-GE 702 at Michigan City, Indiana, October 23, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 702 was built in 1931 by Alco-GE for the NYC as C-C class R-2 314 (c/n's Alco 68242, GE 11165) for the West Side (NYC) freight electrification. When the NYC dieselized that line, the R-2's became surplus, and the South Shore purchased 10 of the units (at a cost of $9,000.00 each), overhauled and rewired eight of them (at a cost of $88,248.00 each). They were converted from NYC's 600 volt DC to the South Shore's 1500 volt DC system and became road #'s 700-707. This unit was put into service in 1955, weighed 140 tons, and developed 3000 horsepower. The pantographs, compressors, motor blowers, and series-parallel switches were from former Cleveland Union Terminal 700 class locomotives, also built by Alco-GE for the NYC. The South Shore's 700 series locomotives were all retired in 1975.
Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad Pullman-built 105 at South Bend, Indiana on August 1, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
9Q-CSS - McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 - SHABAIR
at Brussels Airport (BRU) in 1994
c/n 46.928 - built in 1973 for Western Air Lines -
operated by Shabair between 08/1993 and 05/1995
retired and broken-up 02/1998
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
Unfortunately this never left my inbox for a while. Thanks to Britt Selvitelle (Twitter lad) for sending this April 6th in honor of CSS Naked Day.
This is where idiomag's strategy of creating a personalised online music mag by automatically pulling content from around the web goes a bit awry. Cansei de Ser Sexy vs. Cascading Style Sheets
Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad Pullman-built 4 on a fantrip at the Calumet River bridge near Hammond, Indiana on October 23, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
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Port view of bow of CSS Acadia
CSS Acadia preserved as a Museum Ship alongside the wharves of the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, Halifax, 2007
Career (Canada)
Name:CSS Acadia
Builder:Swan Hunter, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Laid down:1912
Launched:May 8, 1913
Commissioned:as HMCS Acadia January 16, 1917; October 2, 1939
Decommissioned:March 1919, November 3, 1945
In service:September 1913 - November 1969
Refit:New Bridge, Pictou, NS, 1956
Homeport:
Registered: Ottawa
Actual: Halifax & Pictou
Fate:Museum Ship, Halifax, 1982
General characteristics
Class & type:Hydrographic Research Ship/Auxiliary Patrol Vessel
Tonnage:846 grt
Displacement:1700 tons
Length:181 ft 9 in (55.40 m)
Beam:33.5 ft (10.2 m)
Draught:19 ft (5.8 m)
Ice class:Ice Strengthened
Propulsion:Single shaft, 2 fire tube Scotch boilers, 1 triple expansion steam engine, 1,715 hp (1,279 kW)
Speed:12.5 knots (23.2 km/h)
Boats & landing
craft carried:4 survey launches, 2 lifeboats, 2 dories
Complement:15 hydrographic staff
Crew:50
Armament:
(Wartime) 1 X QF 4-inch (102-mm) Mk IV gun (forward)
1 X QF 12-pounder (76-mm) gun (aft)
8 depth charges
Notes:Now a museum ship owned by the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
National Historic Site of Canada
Official name: S.S. Acadia National Historic Site of Canada
Designated:1976
CSS Acadia is a former hydrographic surveying and oceanographic research ship of the Hydrographic Survey of Canada and its successor the Canadian Hydrographic Service.
Acadia served Canada for more than five decades from 1913–1969, charting the coastline of almost every part of Eastern Canada including pioneering surveys of Hudson Bay. She was also twice commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) as HMCS Acadia, the only ship still afloat to have served the RCN in both World Wars. Today she is a museum ship, designated as a National Historic Site of Canada, moored in Halifax Harbour at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.[1]
Retaining her original engines, boilers and little-changed accommodations, she is one of the best preserved Edwardian ocean steamships in the world and a renowned example of Canada's earliest scientific prowess in the fields of hydrography and oceanography.
15 Mar 1986 Chicago South Shore & South Bend Nippon Sharyo Interurban Car 36 (1982) at Chicago Randolph Street station.
CSS&SB 12 and 111 switching at the Randolph Street station in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in June 1980, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Lovefoxxx of CSS performs at State Theatre in St. Petersburg, Florida. #lovefoxxx #css #stpete #stpetersburg #statetheatre #moshpit #musicphotography #concert #concertphotography
During January 1982, Chicago experienced severe cold weather which crippled the CSS&SB's fleet of old interurban cars. To replace the out of service cars, the RTA loaned the CSS&SB a train of RTA bilevels with an F40PH-2. Here the train is seen coming off of the CSS&SB and onto the ICG at Kensington.
An eastbound South Shore train has just crossed the Calumet River and is passing the location of the former interchange with the long gone Chicago & Calumet Railroad, on January 5, 2018.
Signage at Fort Stevens in Warrenton, Oregon. The presence of the Confederate raider in the Pacific was the reason the Union built a gun battery at Fort Stevens. The fort is on the Oregon side of the Columbia River not far from where the river meets the Pacific.
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CSS Shenandoah, formerly Sea King, was an iron-framed, teak-planked, full-rigged sailing ship with auxiliary steam power chiefly known for her actions under Lieutenant Commander James Waddell as part of the Confederate navy during the American Civil War.[3]
Shenandoah was originally a UK merchant vessel launched as Sea King on August 17, 1863, but was later re-purposed as one of the most feared commerce raiders in the Confederate navy.
During a period of 12 1⁄2 months from 1864 to 1865, the ship undertook commerce raiding around the world in an effort to disrupt the US economy, resulting in the capture and sinking or bonding of thirty-eight merchant vessels, mostly New Bedford whaleships.
She finally surrendered on the River Mersey, Liverpool, UK, on November 6, 1865, six months after the war had ended.
Her flag was the last sovereign Confederate flag to be officially furled.
Shenandoah is also known for having fired the last shot of the Civil War, across the bow of a whaler in waters off the Aleutian Islands.[4]
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The vessel had three names and many owners in her lifetime of nine years. She was designed as an auxiliary composite passenger cargo vessel of 1,018 tons and built in 1863 by Alexander Stephen & Sons, Glasgow, Scotland, for Robertson & Co., Glasgow, to be named Sea King.
The vessel was intended for the East Asia tea trade and as a troop transport.
While she was being fitted out at the builders, US representatives assessed the ship for purchase.[5] After change of owner and a number of trips to the Far East carrying cargo and to New Zealand transporting troops to the New Zealand Wars, the Confederate Navy assessed and purchased her from Wallace Bros of Liverpool.
The purchase was made in secret; it was completed on 18 October 1864, and the next day the ship was renamed CSS Shenandoah.
The ship was to be converted into an armed cruiser with a mission to capture and destroy Union merchant ships.[citation needed]
Liverpool was the unofficial home port of the Confederate overseas fleet, and Confederate Commander James Dunwoody Bulloch was based in the city. The city provided ships, crews, munitions, and provisions of war.[6]
Sea King had sailed from London on 8 October 1864, ostensibly for Bombay, on a trading voyage.
The supply steamer Laurel sailed from Liverpool the same day. The two ships rendezvoused at Funchal, Madeira, with Laurel carrying the officers and the nucleus of Shenandoah's crew, together with naval guns, ammunition, and ship's stores.
Shenandoah's commander, Lieutenant James Iredell Waddell, supervised her conversion to a man-of-war in nearby waters. However, Waddell was barely able to bring his crew to even half strength, despite additional volunteers from the merchant sailors on Sea King and from Laurel.[citation needed]
The new Confederate cruiser was commissioned on 19 October 1864, lowering the Union Jack and raising the "Stainless Banner", and was renamed CSS Shenandoah.[3]
As developed in the Confederate Navy Department and by its agents in Europe, Shenandoah was tasked to strike at the Union's economy and "seek out and utterly destroy" commerce in areas yet undisturbed.
Captain Waddell began seeking enemy merchant ships on the Indian Ocean route between the Cape of Good Hope and Australia, and in the Pacific whaling fleet.[3]
En route to the Cape, the Confederates captured six prizes. Five were burned or scuttled, after the crew and passengers had been removed.
The sixth was bonded and used to transport the prisoners to Bahia, Brazil, where they were released.
Still short-handed, Shenandoah arrived at Melbourne, Colony of Victoria, on January 25, 1865, where she filled her complement and her storerooms.[7]
She also signed on 40 crew members who had been stowaways from Melbourne.
They were not enlisted until the ship was outside the Colony of Victoria's territorial waters.[7]
The Shipping Articles show all 40 crew members had enlisted on the day of her departure from Melbourne, February 18, 1865.
However, nineteen of Waddell's crew deserted at Melbourne, some giving statements of their service to the United States Consul.
Shenandoah took only one prize in the Indian Ocean, but hunting became more profitable after refitting in Melbourne.
En route to the North Pacific whaling grounds, on April 3–4, Waddell burned four whalers in the Caroline Islands.
After a three-week cruise to the ice and fog of the Sea of Okhotsk yielded only a single prize, due to a warning which had preceded him, Waddell headed north past the Aleutian Islands into the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean. Shenandoah then proceeded to capture 11 more prizes.[8]
The rich whaling grounds in the Bering Sea between Siberia and Alaska had been a safe haven for Yankee whalers for most of the American Civil War.
This prosperous whaling ended in the spring and summer of 1865 when Shenandoah arrived and captured twenty of the fifty-eight Yankee whalers working here.
These whalers were destroyed more than a month after CSA President Jefferson Davis was captured on May 10, 1865.
On June 27, 1865, Waddell learned from a prize, Susan & Abigail, that General Robert E. Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia almost three months earlier at Appomattox Court House.
Susan & Abigail's captain produced a San Francisco newspaper reporting the flight from Richmond of the Confederate government 10 weeks previously.
However, the newspaper also contained President Davis' proclamation that the "war would be carried on with re-newed vigor."[9] Waddell then captured 10 more whalers in the space of seven hours just below the Arctic Circle.
On August 3, 1865, Waddell learned of the war's definite end when Shenandoah encountered the Liverpool barque Barracouta, which
was bound for San Francisco. Waddell was heading to the city to attack it, believing it weakly defended[10] He learned of the surrender of Johnston's army on April 26, and Kirby Smith's army on May 26, and most crucially of the capture of President Davis. Captain Waddell then knew the war was over.[9]
Captain Waddell lowered the Confederate flag, and Shenandoah underwent physical alteration. Her guns were dismounted and stored below deck, and her hull was painted to look like an ordinary merchant vessel.[11][12]
CSS Acadia is a former hydrographic surveying and oceanographic research ship of the Hydrographic Survey of Canada and its successor the Canadian Hydrographic Service.
Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad Pullman-built 104 on a fan trip in Michigan City, Indiana on August 1, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
after The Roots, I caught the last part of CSS's set. Man I wished I caught their full set. It was a freakin' dance party all over again though I lost all my energy thanks to LCD Soundsystem the night before. And that Lovefoxxx is smokin'.