Art Peterson recently sent us a terrific collection of CA&E photos from the Krambles-Peterson Archive. My father added quite a few to our existing CA&E Photo Album page, but here are some extras.
Here's car 20 at Wheaton on May 8, 1945, in a Tom Desnoyers photo. The deferred maintenance of the war years is pretty obvious. It still has its "streamer sash" windows and original doors at the non-cab corners.
Car 300 leads a five-car train west at College Avenue in June 1950 in another Tom Desnoyers photo.
Here's the 303 westbound at Gunderson on August 17, 1946, in a William C. Janssen photo. You can see that the bottom corners of its pilot haven't been cut back; I believe this is the only car that kept its original pilot profile, and still has it to this day.
George Krambles captured this view of the 320 at Wheaton on June 12, 1937. Like the 321, it wore a folding sign that had been notched out for use on the 311-315 series Kuhlmans. Their MU sockets were originally (albeit briefly) mounted over the anticlimbers. You can also see both headlight plugs on the same side of the train door, but set into the car end rather than into a block as was common in later years.
The red paint on the 320 looks pretty fresh in this August 29, 1950 photo taken by Tom Desnoyers at Racine. The other cars in the train are likely the 105, 321, 205, and 319, which was the so-called "Cannonball consist" often seen together in the later years.
Here's a sorry-looking 321, sporting its own notched-out dash signs, at Desplaines Avenue in an undated photo taken sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s. The car behind it is a trailer but not a "shorty," so that's probably the 205, part of the aforementioned consist that was often seen together.
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