Another collection of photgraphs from Bernie’s collection, showing more of the old hand painted advertising on the Transit Windsor fleet.
Photo © Bernie Drouillard – All rights reserved
Photo © Bernie Drouillard – All rights reserved
Photo © Bernie Drouillard – All rights reserved
Photo © Bernie Drouillard – All rights reserved
Photo © Bernie Drouillard – All rights reserved
Photo © Bernie Drouillard – All rights reserved
City Centre? What is there to do there unless you are 19 and want to get drunk and fight?
It was the mid-90’s that gave rise to the cesspool of a downtown we now have.
Too bad the older busses aren’t around anymore. I loved the bench seats with the springs in them as they were very soft to sit on. Unlike today’s busses with those horrible seats. How anyone can sit on those for more than 10 minutes is beyond me.
I think that Transit Windsor should open up a Transportation Museum since they have buses from 50s,60s,70s,80s and 90s on the lot (just got back from dump) and it would be cool to have the buses painted their time period. They can also import an old red double decker bus from England and other city buses from around the world.
As for taxis; old cab from England, old Checker Flag from New York, taxis from movies and concepts. Also street cars would be cool to have in the museum; a red rocket from TTC, trolley from San Francisco and other cool street cars. Some old Greyhound buses,
old school buses and delievery trucks will be nice too. A lot of interactive activities and friendly atmosphere will make a Transportation Museum a place wo
rth seeing.
http://www.ctmhv.com/
We have a transportation museum in the area. It wouldn’t hurt to house some of the vehicles in town though… perhaps the main floor of a certain empty building located on Riverside Drive?
Transit Windsor’s oldest buses are 30 years old. Not much to draw from there for a museum.
There is a former SW&A 1950s twin coach in a private collection on Manning road.
And a double decker or two at Heritage Village that haven’t been taken care of.
There is also a former SW&A streetcar out in the county that is the substructure of an older ranch style home. The trucks are probably gone and naturally the seats too.
And finally, a former SW&A streetcar in the Halton County Radial Railway collection awaiting restoration.
If passing by Milton you can also stop by the Halton County Radial Railway musuem:
http://www.hcry.org/
Shawn, we’re heading out to the HCRY next month… Very much looking forward
Blair’s suggestion has a lot of merit. If not that “empty” building on Riverside (although stopping in for a cold one at the Keg may help), somewhere in Walkerville. The birth of the Canadian car industry began there and as much as people turn their noses up at the state of today’s auto industry the past 100+ years of car manufacturing are a defining part of Windsor’s legacy. Why do we choose to ignore that?
I’m interested in seeing that this one bus ran the Drouillard 9 route, where did this route exactly run? I can make out Transit Centre on the bottom of the route, but not what it says above it.
I only moved to Windsor about 6 years ago, what were some of the other transit routes that were discontinued? For some reason, I thought 9 was called the Easttown route…? I also know there was an Ojibiway 13, as there was a Parent 14 bus a few weeks ago that couldn’t bother rolling its name into place properly.
Ryan, the routes you’re thinking of are the Drouillard 9(which went from downtown to the transit centre, another name for the garage), the eastown 11(which had a few different routes through the city). Send me an email if you wish to know more.
Matt Sylvestre- matu02ca@yahoo.com
ME i agree with you on the sets they make you sit on in these craker boxes on wheels as i like to call them they should put seat belts on the seats they brake too hard i actually saw a women ejected from one at a bus stop one day a law suit waiting to happen