A few more photos that came to me from John Stefani, again from the Bernie Drouillard collection:
Car # 214 – At the car barns on University Avenue – now The Junction
Car # 366 – On University Avenue at the intersection with Pelissier St.
Car # 418 – On Ferry Street @ the Ferry Docks
Car # 419 – On Chatham Street
Hi Andrew….. what year were these photos?
very cool!
only if we can be there again for a week….& go back to the past!
that would be fun!
thanks again for the great photos!
What a shame that the city that got an electric street railway up and running before anyone else in north america (arguably) threw it all down the drain in the late ’30s. I’d love to see a streetcar system back in Windsor but of course that will never happen.
Lilly,
The streetcars pictured were built and put into service on dates between 1918-1925. The pictures themselves were taken sometimes in the mid 1930s. Some of these were scrapped when the streetcar era ended. #366 apparently went to New Jersey.
Do you have a map or other information about what the routes were?
I think I do at home, I’ll look tonight.
I remember walking downrtown as a kid and every now and then you’d cross a section of street were the old tracks would be visible….
if we can’t bring back the streetcars, how about dedicated bus lanes that run down the centre of major thoroughfares like ouellette, i’ve heard the city of detroit is considering the same thing for woodward. by using low-floor, zero emission buses powered by fuel-cells, you would have all the advantages of light rail without the prohibitive cost. i think dedicated bus lanes would encourage more people and businesses to move downtown. however, given this city’s obsession with the dying auto industry i doubt we’ll ever see dedicated bus lanes in windsor. i also think the local caw dictatorship would view any improvement to windsor’s “tin cup” [in gord henderson’s worlds] transit service a direct threat to the auto industry and would be dead-set against it. personally i say to hell with the caw!
George,
It is certainly interesting to see images of what is now considered to be modern and necessary form of transportation in some cities. I don’t think it will be long before we see a new focus on public transit and less priority given to the car. There is extensive rail right of ways throughout the city and the region that already exist that could easily be converted to LRT. no one is saying that 300 million is cost prohibitive to make ECrow and techumseh and lauzon wider but thats what’s planned! if these trolleys existed once, I would like to see something like this happen again. 300 million with matching funds added would buy some decent LRT!