Here are a few more oldies from John Stefani, via the Bernie Drouillard Collection. Bernie is the pre-eminent local transportation historian in the city of Windsor.
Mr. Patrick Sr., conductor, Erie Line. 1930’s
Car Number 361, London Street Car Barns, 1930’s.
Late 1930’s, in front of the Amerherstburg Echo building.
This photo from 1938, shows the new bus that replaced the street car above on the Windsor-Amherstburg route.
Car #405 on London Street, 1930’s.
These are great photos! I love the old streetcar shots! Are there any images of the streetcars in Amherstburg? I’m not that familiar if and where the rails would have travelled through the town there…? These images certainly tell the story of the public streets given over to the motorized busses and cars and putting the public and public transportation on the fringes…not too many suits on busses ’round here any more…
Behind the photo of car #405, those high rise buildings look like the Guarantee Trust Building, Security Building and Bartlett Building. Is there a reason why they changed London Street to University Ave?
Fausto, I have one other streetcar photo taken in A’burg, dated 1936. Reply with an email address and I’ll send you a scan.
John, Thanks that would be ideal! zfausto@hotmail.com
I understand Amherstburg will soon link up with Windsor transit, once again. …La plus ca change…
i never knew they ran a bus from windsor to amherstbug they had one that ran from belle river to windsor and back and look at things today transit windsor and the city can’t get their shit togeather and have something like that happen again what a shame
Maybe you have not noticed over the past few years thier has been much talk about county wide bus service, the powers that make these things happen have yet to agree.
If you want Transit Windsor to operate in the red, and pay the losese with higher taxes,then run busses to Amherstburg, Harrow, Essex, Kingsville, Leamington, Lakeshore, and bail out Tecumseh while your at it.
If it was profitale their would be bus service to the county, In the past Greyhound went to Harrow,Essex, Kingsville, Leamington, and along Highway 3 to Wheatly and beyond. Today they only go to Tilbury, Chatham, on the way to London and Toronto.
If you want to lose money run busses to the county.