As I have said before, Bernie recently came into a very large collection of photographs… 🙂
The collection continues today:
Car Number 401, c. 1938
Car # 407 at the London Street Yard.
Car # 419 at the London Street Yard.
Another view of # 419.
Car # 451 – Location unknown [EDIT] on Richmond St. Amherstburg, 1938.
Car # 451 at Amherstburg, 1937.
Car # 451 on Richmond St., Amherstburg, 1938.
Car # 405 on Ouellette Ave., Windsor. c. 1932..
There are still a few more to come next week.
Have a good weekend. I’ll see everyone back here on Monday.
Wouldn’t I like to see those light rail cars running again here in the city and in the county! And even better, if they ran on locally produced sustainable electricity generation! Imagine sitting in cafe or restaurant on the boulevard with these almost quiet, no spewing trains running by, as it is now sitting on the boulevard with buses and cars driving by does not make for an appealing time.
About 3 or 4 years ago, I came across an abandoned streetcar in the Colchester area. Only its skeleton remains in a back bush lot just off the water. If I recall correctly, there were a couple of huge trees that were growing through it indicating that it has been sitting there for a long while. I’ve been going through every digital file I have but can’t seem to find them. They were really cool photos…I’ll keep trying.
Car #451 “location unknown” is Amherstburg. You can see the same building again from a different perspective if you scroll down a couple photos.
The last shot of the interurban car in front of the old Palace is my favorite of the most recent lot. Fortunately it arrived on a nicely printed 8×10.
Streetcar Friday! Does this mean we get to see streetcars every Friday!!!! Way cool!!!
Also, is there a distiction between streetcar and ‘interurban’ streetcar?
The last shot is my fav as well. Awnings on downtown buildings? Surely you jest! What a difference between the look of that shot and the one today of that crappy buildng (the new palace). Boy have our standards fallen.
Fausto, the interurban streetcars ran (as the name suggests) between urban centres, as in the case of the WE&LS RR and H.E.Ry. I understand they were larger, more comfortable, and typically had furnaces. Beyond that I don’t know much else. Maybe Bernie can expand on that?
Cool pictures thanks again!!
That last shot certainly tells a story doesn’t it!!! … Save for the Canada building, everything else has been successfully removed form that scene. ..on street parking.. ..lrt… beautiful brick facads… even a mother crossing the street with her daugter… gone, gone gone, and, gone …. Like ME says, todays standards are not even close to what Windsor residents should expect for themselves.
Man of the Windsor Railway History is Saved in Numerous spots around Canada and the USA. I believe at the Museum of Science & Technology has 1 of the Street cars, as well as ETR #9 is in Waterloo at present moment but based out of St Thomas. These are just a start of what is preserved around the Canada.
If you want to really get a kick out of the old Street car stuff. There is still rails buried under Ouellette in some portions around Wyandotte Street Area, also in the Pedestrian crossing/Street Corner at Mill & Sandwich, there is 4 piece of Rail showing where pedestrians have to walk, on the Sandwich street.