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CSS&SB 102 at Randolph Street Station in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in March 1980, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
CSS&SB 1 and 28 at Burnham, Illinois, sometime in April 1975, photo by Chuck Zeiler. I did not keep careful notes on this trip, so please feel free to add/correct any information. Number 1 is on a CERA sponsored fan trip from Chicago to (I believe) Michigan City and return, featuring sequential cars 1, 2, 3, and 4. Number 28 is on the rear of a regularly scheduled train.
Hampton Roads Naval Museum, Norfolk, VA.
Update 2012: It's CSS Nansemond, built in Norfolk. 1:24 scale model by C. Lester McLeod.
CSS&SB Pullman 3 at Michigan City, Indiana on an unknown day in May 1979, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 3 was built by Pullman Car and Manufacturing Company in early 1926, placed in service sometime during June 1926.
CSS&SB 2 at Michigan City, Indiana on an unknown day in May 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 2 was built by Pullman Car and Manufacturing Company in 1926, one of ten of the first steel cars ordered by the Insull administration (road #'s 1 - 9). They were also the first cars to operate on 1500 volts DC. When first placed in service on July 13, 1926, they operated between Michigan City and South Bend until the rest of the railroad was converted from 6000 volts AC. This car is the original 60 foot length, rides on Baldwin 84-60AA trucks equipped with Westinghouse 4W567-C11 traction motors, weighs 133,400 pounds, and seats 56 passengers (16 in the smoking section).
CSS performs Aug. 1, 2008, at Lollapalooza day one in Chicago. More photos: www.undergroundbee.com/2008/08/01css/index.htm
A westbound CSS&SB passenger train departs the K&E and enters Metra's Electric District at Kensington Tower, in November 2000.
Erskine sites featured in Japanese book "CSS Creative Design". Book sent kindly by Kazumichi Takahashi.
CSS&SB 2 at Michigan City, Indiana on an unknown day in May 1979, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Looks like it hit something.