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#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.
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.
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.
The Cadillac V-16 (sometimes known as the Cadillac Sixteen) was Cadillac's top-of-the-line car from its January 1930 launch until production ceased in 1940 as the war in Europe killed sales. All were finished to custom order, and the car was built in very small numbers; only 4076 cars were constructed in the eleven years the model was offered. The majority of these were built in the single year of 1930, before the Great Depression really took hold. This was the first V16 powered car to reach production status in the United States.
Genesis:
In 1926, Cadillac began the development of a new, "multi-cylinder" car. A customer requirement was seen for a car powered by an engine simultaneously more powerful and smoother than any hitherto available. Development proceeded in great secrecy over the next few years; a number of prototype cars were built and tested as the new engine was developed, while at the same time Cadillac chief Larry Fisher and GM's stylist Harley Earl toured Europe in search of inspiration from Europe's finest coachbuilders. Unlike many builders of luxury cars, who sold bare chassis to be clothed by outside coachbuilding firms, General Motors had purchased the coachbuilders Fleetwood Metal Body and Fisher Body to keep all the business in-house. Bare Cadillac chassis could be purchased if a buyer insisted, but the intention was that few would need to do so. One Cadillac dealer in England, namely Lendrum & Hartman, ordered at least two such chassis in even rarer right hand drive (RHD) configuration and had Van den Plas (Belgium) build first an elegant limousine-landaulet (engine #702297), then a sports sedan with unusual cycle fenders and retractable step plates in lieu of running boards (engine #702298, which was successfully shown in various Concours d'Elegance events in Europe before being bought by the young Nawab of Bahawalpur); both these cars have survived. A third RHD chassis was ordered by the Indian Maharaja of Orccha (Bhopal) and sent to Farina in Italy, in July 1931, for a boat tail body (engine between #703136 and #703152).
It was not until after the stock market crash of 1929 that Cadillac announced to the world the availability of the costliest Cadillac yet, the new V-16. The new vehicle was first displayed at New York's automobile show on January 4, 1930.
Statistics:
1930–1937:
Generation 1 (Series 452 and 90)
Overview:
Model years 1930–1937
Body and chassis
Platform Series 90: D-body
Related Cadillac Series 370/85
Cadillac Series 355
Cadillac Series 75
Powertrain
Engine 452 cu in (7.4 L) Cadillac V16
Dimensions
Wheelbase 1930–31: 148.0 in (3,759 mm)
1932–33: 143.0 in (3,632 mm) and 149.0 in (3,785 mm)
1934–37: 154.0 in (3,912 mm)
Length 1930–31: 222.5 in (5,652 mm)
1932–33: 216.0 in (5,486 mm) and 222.0 in (5,639 mm)
1934–35: 240.0 in (6,096 mm)
1936–37: 238.0 in (6,045 mm)
Width 1931: 73.6 in (1,869 mm)
1932–35: 77.0 in (1,956 mm)
1936–37: 74.4 in (1,890 mm)
Height 1931: 72.5 in (1,842 mm)
1932–33: 71.5 in (1,816 mm)
1934–37: 69.5 in (1,765 mm)
Curb weight 5,300–6,600 lb (2,400–3,000 kg)
The new car attracted rave reviews from the press and huge public attention. Cadillac started production of the new car immediately. January production averaged a couple of cars per day, but was then ramped up to twenty-two cars per day. By April, 1,000 units had been built, and by June, 2,000 cars. These could be ordered with a wide variety of bodywork. The Fleetwood catalog for the 1930 V-16 included 10 basic body styles; there was also an envelope containing some 30 additional designer's drawings. Research by the Cadillac-La Salle Club, Inc. puts at 70 the number of different job/style numbers built by Fisher and Fleetwood on the sixteen chassis.
Beginning in June 1930, five new V-16s participated in a promotional tour of major European cities including Paris, Antwerp, Brussels, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin, Cologne, Dresden, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Nuremberg, Vienna (where they won prizes), Berne, Geneva, Lausanne, Zürich, Madrid, San Sebastian, La Baule and Angers. On the return journey from Spain, the V16 caravan stopped also in the town of Cadillac, in south-western France, although that city bears no relationship to the marque, other than its name.
After the peak in V-16 orders in mid-1930, production fell precipitously. During October 1930, only 54 cars were built. The lowest figures for the 452/452A cars of 1930–31 were August 1931 (seven units) and November 1931 (six units). Minimum production continued throughout the rest of the decade with a mere 50 units being built both in 1935 and in 1937. 1940 was only marginally better with a total of 51 units. Not surprisingly, Cadillac later estimated that they lost money on every single V-16 they sold.
Production of the original V-16 continued under various model names through 1937. The body was redesigned in 1933 as the model 452C. Innovations included Fisher no draft individually controlled ventilation (I.C.V. or vent windows).
For 1934, the body was redesigned again and denoted as 452D, and as 452E in 1935. The V-16 now featured the Fisher Turret Top all-steel roof, though the cars were still built by Fleetwood. This same basic design would remain virtually unchanged through 1937. With a wheelbase of 154.0 inches (3,912 mm) and a curb weight of up to 6,600 pounds (3,000 kg) these are perhaps the largest standard production cars ever produced in the United States. Combined production for the 1934 and 1935 model years was 150. It was redesignated the Series 90 in 1936 as Cadillac reorganized their model names. Fifty-two units were sold that year, with nearly half ordered as limousines. Hydraulic brakes were added for 1937, the last year of production. Fifty vehicles were produced.
[Text taken from Wikipedia]
1930 452A V16 Rollston Convertible-Coupe
Even today a vehicle is regularly judged by the number of pistons propelling it, but this was even more so in the formative years. A major restriction in those years was the strength of the crankshaft in long multi-cylinder engines. The V-engine with two banks of cylinders was a major step forward and by the mid 1920s several companies had a V12 in their line-up. Towards the end of the decade three American companies (Cadillac, Marmon and Peerless) were busy developing an even more glamorous V16 engine, but it proved more difficult than first imagined and one of them never even materialized.
Cadillac's engineers were the first to get the V16 engine ready and in January 1930 the wraps were taken off the Cadillac 452 V16. With the help of a former Marmon designer, the sixteen cylinder engine was constructed using two blocks of the new Buick eight cylinder engine. The two blocks were mounted on a common crankcase at a 45 degree angle. A single camshaft mounted inside the V operated the valves by pushrods. As the type indication suggests, the engine displaced 452 cubic inches or just over 7.4 litres and produced 175 bhp and had torque in abundance.
The huge engine was installed in a simple ladder frame, almost identical to the one used in the V8 engined Model 51. Suspension was equally conventional and by live axles and semi-elliptic leaf springs on both ends. Stopping power for the heavy machine was provided by servo assisted drum brakes on all four wheels. Unlike many of the competitors in the high-end market, Cadillac predominantly offered complete cars rather than rolling chassis to be bodied by custom coachbuilders. Many of the 'standard' bodies were constructed by Fleetwood and Fischer, which had just become part of General Motors.
Despite being the most expensive Cadillac ever, the V16 proved a hit in the first months of 1930. Over 2000 cars were ordered in the first seven months of that year, but then sales dropped dramatically and it would take another ten years to double that number. This was most likely caused by the looming depression and the introduction of a V12-engined Cadillac in the second half of 1930. Marmon's more advanced answer was ready in 1931, but it proved to be too late. Cadillac continued to develop the V16 with a completely new engine introduced in 1938 as the biggest change.
In its various forms the Cadillac V16 remained in production until 1941, but apart from the first seven months it was a failure; a very glorious one. Today it's considered as one of the finest American cars of its era and a welcome guest at concours d'elegance all over the world. All of them were constructed to custom order and it is estimated that over 70 different body variants were constructed by Fleetwood and Fischer alone. The V16's prominent position in Cadillac's history was underlined by the aptly named 'Sixteen Concept' built to celebrate the company's 100th anniversary in 2003.
Fleetwood Limousine (Chassis 700280)
This vehicle was originally produced at Detroit's Fort Street plant as a Seven-Passenger Sedan with Style 4375-S bodywork. It was retrofitted by the dealer to Style 4375, Seven-Passenger Imperial Sedan specifications with the addition of a sliding glass division window and a pair of forward-facing, foldable auxiliary seats.
The original owner of the car was Templeton Crocker, a well-known adventurer, yachtsman and heir to a West Coast banking and railroad fortune. It was sold a year later to Lillian Remillard, the heir to her father's San Francisco brick company fortune. She was married to Italian inventor Count Alessandro Dandini for only a brief period of time. Though her marriage was brief, she retained the title 'Countess Lillian Remillard Dandini,' until her death in 1973.
The car would pass through several owners, yet it was fondly known as the 'Countess Dandini' car. It was found in a barn in San Jose, California during the 1960s. It was covered in the June 1965 edition of The Self Starter, the magazine of the Cadillac & LaSalle Club, and is believed to have passed through two more owners prior to acquisition by the current owner in 2007.
[Text taken from 'Conceptcarz.com']
www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/chassisNum.aspx?carid=11275&a...
This Lego miniland-scale 1930 Cadillac 452A V16 Fleetwood Limousine has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 88th Build Challenge, - "Let's go Break Some records", - for vehicles that set the bar (high or low) for any number of vehicles statistics or records. Or as the very first.
The 1930 Cadillac 452 V16 Chassis was home to many custom bodies by renown design houses, along with standard bodies from Fleetwood (laterly part of General Motors). Key though, was the 452 CID V16 engine - the first production V16 in the world, beating luxury rival Marmon by over a year.
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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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.