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CSS&SB 19 at Michigan City, Indiana on November 16, 1982, Kodachrome by Gib Allbach, Chuck Zeiler collection.
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.
CSS&SB GE 1013 at Michigan City, Indiana on October 23, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Previous orders for South Shore freight locomotives had been placed with Baldwin, with electrical gear supplied by Westinghouse (road #'s 1001-1010). By 1929, GE took note of this sudden spike in the competitor's business and entered the bidding on the next batch when the South Shore asked for proposals. Whether any profit was earned is a good question, but nonetheless General Electric was awarded the contract for CSS&SB #'s 1011-1013, and they were erected and equipped by GE at Erie, Pennsylvania. As delivered, these locomotives also had a trolley pole (the reason for the offset pantograph) and third rail collection devices, and were designed to operate on South Shore's 1500 VDC or Samuel Insull's other two Chicago railroads (CNS&M and CA&E) 600 VDC, although there is no evidence that these locomotives ever left CSS&SB rails. Lookalikes (GE engineers drew up their own blueprints, the GE's had four front windows instead of Baldwin's three) for the Baldwin-Westinghouse Class E motors, #'s 1011-1013 were set up to run in multiple with them as well. They were shipped by GE between December 1929 and November 1930, all were retired in January 1967 and scrapped by Precision Engineering.
Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad Pullman built coach 1 built by Pullman Car & Manufacturing Company at Michigan City Shops, Indiana, sometime in April 1975, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 1 headed a Central Electric Railfans Association sponsored fan trip from Chicago to Michigan City. This is a good example of a circuit break in the overhead wire. Notice that the wires crossing in front of the lead car are supplying power to separate parts of the overhead wire, and that wire is spliced by insulated sections. The insulators are visible covering the front truck of the lead car, and the other insulator is above the rear truck of the caboose in this view.
CSS&SB Standard Steel 28 at about Roosevelt Road in Chicago on an unknown day in August 1978, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
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.
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.
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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.