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The Peerless Gas Station during its heyday stood on West Colfax Avenue serving those traveling to the mountains along Route 40. It has recently been acquired by the Lakewood Cultural Center where it will be restored to its original 1950s-style Texaco gas station.
At some point the metal cover plate disappeared which exposed the switching mechanism used on the spur for Peerless Confectionery. Soo Line crews who were Milwaukee Road holdovers in the mid-1980s told me that they had to be careful when throwing these street switches as rats would sometimes be hiding below the metal plates.
CP Rail was still servicing Peerless by this date and on January 1 of 2007 Chicago Terminal would take over. Peerless went out of business in May of 2007 ending revenue freight service on the former Milwaukee Road C&E Line north of Clybourn. Later there would be two special movements including stuffing gondolas for storage on the former Peerless spur and a passenger excursion train.
In later years this switch mechanism would be tough to move and require a crowbar. See below.
In the background is a covered hopper on the Peerless spur. Attached to the wall is a relatively new gantry that would swing out so a Peerless employee working on top of covered hoppers to open and close the hatches could safely attach to a harness.
Peerless closed in May of 2007 and this area is now filled in with condo buildings. The last verified train run to Peerless and back was in February of 2007 by Chicago Terminal (CTM).
On Halloween of 2004 a group of us who were fans of the industrial railroad lines on Chicago's North Side took a driving and walking inspection tour, starting with the former C&NW Navy Pier Line and ending up at the end of the Chicago & Evanston Line at Peerless Confection at Diversey and Lakewood.
Photographed on July 25, 2015 at the Inn at St. John's in Plymouth, Michigan as cars were arriving on the show field for the Sunday's Concours d'Elegance show.
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Peerless Street, London EC1. By Penoyre & Prasad for Moorfields Eye Hospital, 2007.
Sony A7II + C/Y Zeiss Distagon 28mm f/2.8 MM
The Peerless Executive and President 8 transistor desk set radios appear to be the same radio, both using the DR-80 model number.
Not a very good example to be setting by a member of the Veteran Car Club. Maybe he thinks he is immune from the law because he is driving a vintage car ? However it is still a motor vehicle that is traveling on a public road surrounded by fast moving traffic. There were also lots of people lining the roadside to watch the event and if the car had left the road it could have caused a serious accident. After all a moving vehicle is still capable causing death or injury regardless of it's age.
This farewell letter appeared on the Peerless website before it shut down and I printed it off for posterity.
Peerless Confection was a customer of the Milwaukee Road, Soo/CP, and for a few months, Chicago Terminal (CTM) at its Lincoln Park location at Diversey & Lakewood. From 1984 to 2007 it was the only reason the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line stayed open north of Clybourn Avenue as the last customer on that section.
In its early days Peerless was served by the MILW on its then double tracked C&E line that ran on dirt paved Lakewood. Peerless in later years added a new, northern half to its plant.
After Mars closes its plant on the west side of Chicago in the near future per its announcement, that will leave just Tootsie Roll as the last rail-served candy factory in the city. Once there were a dozen or more including three on the C&E.
Below is a picture of what I believe was the last revenue run up to Peerless by CTM in 2007. I produced a special banner for the occasion. CTM made two more non-revenue runs up to the former Peerless spur after that.
Peerless Confectionery went out of business in May of 2007 and a short time later its buildings were leveled and replaced by condos. There were just two revenue runs of which I am aware by Chicago Terminal during its short time servicing Peerless which took place in January and February of 2007. They are documented below in my CTM album.
The CTM SW8 is running light up the last mile that was left of the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston North Line to retrieve cars left behind by CP at Peerless Confectionery at Diversey Parkway the week before.
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.
Seventh 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.
1915 Peerless TC4 FN5284,
sold at auction with a winning bid of £37,000.
Iden Grange, Staplefield Kent, 14/6/14.
Neil F.
Peerless and talented master ves-chan www.flickr.com/photos/26947305@N06/ did for my Ivo (Dollstown 18 boy) incredibly realistic military jacket, which I began to dream a year ago, for a long time looking for the masters in the network. To provide s020.radikal.ru/i719/1509/6f/da3fae6380ac.jpg, ves-chan made absolutely identical version of my amendments on drawings (hawk replaced by wolf ). Among other things, she embroiders patterns on a typewriter, so they are realistic and fit on the scale. This mega-cool!
Sutures, both external and internal, without a single blot, fabric quality is such as I wanted (in conjunction with a master for a long time picking), accessories and scale perfectly met for bjd, and looks extremely impressive. And also - to meet all deadlines to send a photo of intermediate processes, and communication was very friendly and prompt.
I am very happy (given my reverent attitude to detail) and heartfelt thanks for the wonderful wizard thing! Now I am happy, because Ivo finished.
Peerless Confectionery went out of business in May of 2007 and a short time later its buildings were leveled and replaced by condos. There were just two revenue runs of which I am aware by Chicago Terminal during its short time servicing Peerless which took place in January and February of 2007. They are documented below in my CTM album.
The CTM SW8 is running light up the last mile that was left of the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston North Line to retrieve cars left behind by CP at Peerless Confectionery at Diversey Parkway the week before.
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.
Seventh 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.
This example shown here represents a valiant attempt by James Bohannon, the president of the company, to create a technically advanced vehicle with superb styling that could revitalize sales. The body is constructed of aluminum which was provided by ALCOA. The engine is a massive 464.6 cubic-inch V-16 engine capable of producing nearly 175 horsepower. Peerless was one of the few marques to ever use a 16-cylinder engine in one of their automobiles and joined the ranks of Cadillac and Marmon. The coachwork was the result of the famous builder, Murphy. The main designer on the project was 22-year old Franklin Hershey. The result was a four-door, five-passenger sedan sitting atop a 145-inch wheelbase. ~ www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z11517/peerless-v-16-prototyp...
Car Museum Day, 05/18/2019, Cleveland, OH
Leica Camera AG M Monochrom
7Artisans 50mm f/1.1
ƒ/2.4 50.0 mm 1/25 320
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Peerless
[between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.34459
Call Number: LC-B2- 5771-4
The CP Rail crew in a faded Milwaukee Road MP15 waits while the owner of a vehicle blocking the spur is found so they can retrieve an empty tank car.
In less than 2.5 years Chicago Terminal would take over operation up to Peerless on the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston Line-a line that CP/Soo had sought to abandon north of Clybourn as far back as 1986 when it took over the line from the Milwaukee Road.
At one time the Milwaukee Road's C&E line reached not only its namesake Evanston on the north but it was later extended into Wilmette where it terminated near the current Linden Avenue L station.
The last documented run by CTM to Peerless was on February 1, 2007, then Peerless shut down in April of 2007 and its buildings torn down a short time later. This area is now filled with condos though the track still remains in the street on Lakewood long after it was officially abandoned by CTM.
"Silence is developed to its highest state of perfection in the 1908 Models." This make was one of the legendary Three P's of luxury cars: Packard, Peerless, and Pierce-Arrow.
This guy wanted to be locked up. He showed up in his Levi's 501s. I put him in a locking grip belt to keep the Levi's on. Then took a peerless harness restraint which is a waist chain with cuffs at the side, and attached leg irons. The leg irons wouldn't fit comfortably around his ankles so I took some Smith and Wesson leg irons, locked them on and took the attached peerless leg irons, looped them around the leg irons locked on and then locked the peerless leg irons to the waist chain. This prevented the waist chain from being lifted over his head. The waist chain was locked on with a high security American lock. I gave him the camera and told him to try and escape. He didn't succeed.
2018 photo100 - #78
This is the light source for a 1950 Simplex XL movie projector. This magnificantly restored example is on display in the lobby of The Old Regent Theater in my hometown of Allegan, Michigan. www.alleganregent.com/
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#2018photo100 #artdeco #theater #allegan #vintage #restoration
This image was captured through the window of my fifth-floor room at Kolkata's Peerless Inn. Each day the sun turned a peachy orange-pink as it disappeared into the layer of pollution hanging above the city. Oh India, how I'd missed you.
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta, is probably best known in the West for the work of Mother Theresa. It is not a part of the tourist circuit in India. The Indian national sitting next to me on my flight from Warsaw to Delhi was surprised to learn it was my ultimate destination. With no attempt at tact, he matter-of-factly declared, "Kolkata is boring."
In a sense, my seatmate wasn't wrong. Kolkata lacks the great forts, tombs, and monuments of Delhi, Agra, and Rajasthan. Yet the city has its own unique culture and charm. And as the headquarters of the British East India Company, Calcutta was transformed from three small villages to the second largest city in the British Empire, behind only London. Today it is the seventh largest city in India with around 5 million people. This would make it the second largest city in the US, behind only NYC.
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That's how it's done, throwing a switch set in the street as the CP Rail conductor shows.
Rare plumage for CP with this former North Louisiana & Gulf MP15. It was the only time I caught this engine working the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line. It's on its way to pick up an empty tank car from Peerless Confectionery using street trackage.
Everything in this scene is gone now. Peerless Confectionery closed in May of 2007 and was torn down a short time later and replaced by condos. The last rail movement on this line was in 2009 when CP successor Chicago Terminal spotted gondolas on the former Peerless spur to assert its rights to the tracks.
As of the latest Google Streetview, remarkably tracks remain in the street.
A real fascinating story behind these cars, originally built in Slough in the late 50s, they only ever made 325 of them in the original run, one was even sent to Le Mans back in 1958. Great looking in a non conventional sense, truly an icon from the time when someone could start up their own independant car company and actually sell a fair amount of cars, no chance of that happening these days however.
There are no apologies. This image is posted out of sequence. Stay here with me and you will know why.
Nearby is Sir Isaac Newton's memorial built into the choir screen. It's flashy. Everyone wants to snap it with their latest gadget, their stupid pose, a supercilious grin and get it on-line. I am more patient. I want you to admire this stone, absorb it and understand what comes after.
I am humbled, emotionally engaged, adoring. I am here to honour, inter alia, the man; his legacy. He is at the fore, without peer; maybe.
Here lies what was mortal of Isaac Newton
With British manufacturers struggling to meet demand for motor lorries
for war service, in 1914 the British Government contracted with export
agents Gaston, Williams & Wigmore to supply American chassis to
be fitted with bodies in England. Prominent among these makes was
Peerless of Cleveland, Ohio, a firm that had started life in Victorian
times making mangles before turning to cycle manufacture and then, in
1900, entering the car market with de Dion-engined voiturettes. Within
a few years, Peerless had become one of America’s most prestigious
manufacturers, ranking alongside Packard and Pierce-Arrow. Trucks
of 3-ton, 4-ton and 5-ton capacity were added to the product line in
1911 and found favour with the US Army.
Between 1915-18 the British Government bought a total of 12,000
Peerless truck chassis, which were imported via Liverpool, then
inspected and made “ready for service” at a Gaston, Williams &
Wigmore repair facility at Islington, North London.
After the war ended, the American made arrangements for the
60,000 or so trucks that they had in Europe to be sold. Many
were sent to the Government repair depot at Slough. In 1920 the
Government Surplus Disposal Board sold the Slough site and all the
vehicles – including those still in France, Egypt, Turkey, India and
Mesopotamia – for over £7 million to a group of investors headed by
Sir Percival Perry and Noel Mobbs, who continuing rebuilding and
selling reconditioned lorries before converting the site into the Slough
Trading Estate.
FWD and Peerless established independent companies on the
estate, and after war service this 4-ton truck, which was built in
Cleveland in 1915 and shipped to Europe in 1916, was extensively
rebuilt in 1921 by the Peerless Trading Company at Slough. It has
a 6.76-litre bi-block T-head engine driving the massive cast iron
rear wheels through a four speed and reverse gearbox and side
chains. From Slough, the Peerless was acquired by C & G Yeoman
of Canterbury, Kent, who were nationalised in 1948, becoming
part of the East Kent Group of the South Eastern Division of British
Road Services.
The old Peerless remained in BRS service until 1956, when it was
auctioned off. Ten years later, Michael Banfield acquired the Peerless
as a chassis for £30 from J.T. Evans’ scrapyard at Wiggington, near
Tring, and subjected it to a typically painstaking restoration, its body
being built and painted “in-house” at Nunhead Lane as a replica of
a Peerless operated in the 1920s by W. G. Mersh of Albion Street,
Rotherhithe. Typical of the standard of restoration, the impeccably
lined-out apple green paintwork represents some 30 coats of paint
and varnish, and the lettering is in real gold leaf. Running well, the
Peerless has been officially dated as 1915 by the Veteran Car Club.
£20,000 - 25,000
€25,000 - 31,000
Over the past Labor Day Weekend here in the US. I headed out early to capture the sunrise over Wichita, Kansas. This image is a panorama made with my DJI Mavic Platinum Pro.
Visit to the June 13, 2015 Cleveland All-Stars car show at Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio (a suburb of Cleveland). This show featured cars built in northeast Ohio, and a nice variety of examples was on display.
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Everything about this scene has totally changed. The buildings are gone and replaced by upscale condos and the last train was on these tracks in 2009 when Chicago Terminal stuffed some gondolas on the former Peerless spur.
In this view from the past CP is switching out Peerless Confectionery, the last customer north of Clybourn on the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) line. In January of 2007 shortline Chicago Terminal would take over operation of the C&E from CP. In May of 2007 Peerless went out of business, and in 2019, Iowa Pacific, the parent of Chicago Terminal, went out of business.
Below is a view of a rare passenger train on the C&E shortly after Peerless was demolished at the same location.
With a light grey building, a light grey sky, and grey pavement there was not much contrast possible in these shots.
Rare plumage for CP with this former North Louisiana & Gulf MP15. It was the only time I caught this engine working the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line. It's on its way to pick up an empty tank car from Peerless Confectionery using street trackage.
Peerless went out of business in May of 2007 which ended revenue freight service on the C&E Line north of Clybourn by which time Chicago Terminal (CTM) had taken over operations of the C&E and Goose Island trackage from CP. In 2015 Big Bay Lumber on Goose Island closed which was the last CTM customer. CTM later conveyed rights to its ROW to the City of Chicago and abandoned what was left of its Chicago property in 2018.