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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.
#ANALAX Brand Ambassadors Yukari Peerless and Neal Schaffer pictured in the new ANA Inspiration of Japan service economy seats.
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.
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Both photos discovered recently in a sleeve of prints that I took from what I can tell in 1987 using a Kodak Hawkeye Instamatic with 126 format film. Cleaned up in PhotoShop as much as possible.
Part of a sequence of photos showing a Soo Line crew using a former MILW MP15 swapping out a pair of tank cars for a hopper with sugar for Peerless Confectionery.
Peerless closed in May of 2007 and was serviced by Chicago Terminal after CTM took over in January of 2007 from Canadian Pacific. Today this area is now all upscale condos and Chicago Terminal is no longer.
Photos of CTM servicing Peerless in this album-
The 2016 Concours d’Elegance of America at the Inn at St. John’s. Plymouth, Michigan. July 2016.
The Peerless Motor Car Company of Cleveland, Ohio built its first car in 1900. By 1910, the make ranked with Packard and Pierce-Arrow as one of the prestigious “Three P’s” of motordom. By the mid-1920’s though, Peerless had faded in the public perception. A redesigned range for 1929 resulted in a resurgence of sales, but the Great Depression soon torpedoed the automaker’s recovery efforts. Production ceased in 1932.
The seven-passenger Model 8-125 on exhibit was the “cream of the crop” among the 1929 Peerless models. Its 138-inch wheelbase was the longest ever for a production Peerless. A new inline 8-cylinder Continental engine and state-of-the-art 4-wheel hydraulic brakes were standard for this well-appointed luxury car. Very few 8-125s were ultimately made, and only three are known to exist today.
Believed to have been first delivered through the Lords dealership in Los Angeles, this Peerless was for a time the property of 20th Century Fox Studios, where it was featured in several gangster movies. By 1959, it belonged to the Movie Car Company, whose Hollywood client Desilu Productions often used it for their “Untouchables” television series. It was usually seen careening around a corner, full of bad guys with machine guns blazing.
The current owner acquired the car from Mr. Dexter Dotson, who at one time owned the world’s largest collection of Peerless automobiles. This rare car’s appearance here marks only its second public appearance since a comprehensive restoration was completed in early 2016.
Current owner: Daniel Johnson
Information provided on the Concours d’Elegance of America show placard.
This image is a composite from two engineering diagrams presumed to be from 1971 due to their similarity to others in my collection. They show the Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line which once went past Wrigley Field-and also delivered boxcars of beer and bats among other things to the ballpark from the adjacent team track. The C&E had already been single tracked at this date.
Until 1917 the MILW went to Wilmette via Evanston which was the source of the C&E name. After 1917 it turned over the line to a predecessor of the CTA with freight interchange at Buena Yard north of Irving Park Road.
In 1973 the MILW cut the line back to Racine Avenue, in 1981 to just north of Belmont Avenue to access Reed Candy, then in 1984 to Diversey to continue servicing Peerless Confectionery. Peerless closed in May of 2007 and as of 2019 the C&E is officially abandoned and successor to the Milwaukee Road and Soo/CP, Chicago Terminal and its parent Iowa Pacific, are out of business.
The Peerless Armoured Car is a British-designed armoured vehicle that originated from adaptations of existing American truck chassis during and immediately after World War I. Its story is one of rapid improvisation and iterative improvement—a solution born out of urgent wartime need and later refined to meet peacetime policing and internal security roles
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.
Both photos discovered recently in a sleeve of prints that I took from what I can tell in 1987 using a Kodak Hawkeye Instamatic with 126 format film. Cleaned up in PhotoShop as much as possible.
Part of a sequence of photos showing a Soo Line crew using a former MILW MP15 swapping out a pair of tank cars for a hopper with sugar for Peerless Confectionery.
Peerless closed in May of 2007 and was serviced by Chicago Terminal after CTM took over in January of 2007 from Canadian Pacific. Today this area is now all upscale condos and Chicago Terminal is no longer.
Photos of CTM servicing Peerless in this album-
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
1932 Peerless De Luxe Master 8 Cabriolet - Antique Automobile Museum / Railway Village, 586 Wiscasset Road (Route 27), Boothbay, Maine
1932 Peerless De Luxe Master 8 Cabriolet with a straight 8 cylinder engine. This was one of the last cars built by the Peerless Motor Company, and it also came with a 16 cylinder (V16) engine. if you were in the market for some serious horsepower.
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.
1895 Peerless 6NHP Traction Engine No. 4726 'Princess Tammy' at the Great Dorset Steam Fair's "500@50" celebration.
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.
This 05B Zaku I model Mobile Suit is on a pedestal. It has been elevated so that other Zaku and Gundam Mobile Suits (Assuming they are not significantly taller.) will look upwards to this brave mecha.
Note also that the model designation has been inscribed on the base of the pedestal. This signifies that the great honor of pedestalry should not only be conferred on this particular mecha but on the fine model series he represents as a whole.
Consider as well the dramatic pose. The axe and gun are both dynamically positioned to initiate maximum destruction. Thrill at the Greco-Roman pteruges and the Tudors era pauldrons as the armor design calls forth imagery of conquering, jousting, gladiatorial combat, American football, paintball and general violent aggression.
And finally note the fashion. The flared shin-guards and boots bring to mind bell-bottoms and one can easily imagine this mecha completing his victory in the furnace of battle to then go on and boogie down in the disco inferno.
Look and behold this elevated mecha of peerless pedigree and formidable battle and dance skills.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
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
The original Milwaukee Road photo album section that included this photo was headed "Chgo Term C&E Dist. Sept 80"
This view looks south along Lakewood with the spur to Peerless Confectionery on the left and the spur to the Continental Baking on the right.
In September and October of 1980 the Milwaukee Road did a photographic survey of its Chicago Terminal lines as part of an assessment of which ones to abandon and which ones to keep. The lines that they inspected and documented were the Chicago & Evanston (C&E), the Deering Line, Goose Island, and the Dunning Line.
The photos, diagrams, memos, and more were rescued by the Milwaukee Road Historical Association (MRHA) in the early 2000s from the former Milwaukee Road Galewood freight yard office which was going to be demolished for a new residential development. The developer gave access to the MRHA to retrieve the priceless historical documents and photos some of which have appeared in various articles of mine in The Milwaukee Railroader, the Chicago Switching website, and on Flickr.
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.
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/
You can see all the images in the 2018 Photo100 project here: www.flickr.com/photos/streamingmeemee/albums/721576621771...
#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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