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Photo in Windsor
Same shot as above only with the workers in the shot…
Also in Windsor. The house in the background along the waterfront is where the former Villa Maria is located today.
Another view of the Windsor shoreline. Note the natural shoreline that barely exists today…
That must have been some snow storm that day in trying to take pictures of the bridge construction in what seems on this blog today, to be quite a white out!
I was thinking something along the lines of “…gee, those old pictrures sure faded, didn’t they….”
Doug in the second last photo, what’s the deal with all the rail tracks? Was the bridge built on/over a rail yard?
Andrew, my guess is it is a temporary line laid to facilitate movement of construction materials. Since the S.W.&A. RAILWAY ran along nearby Sandwich Street (now Riverside Dr. West) on its way to Amherstburg; I see no overhead catenary (power wires) so locomotion was not electric engines… or, the nearby “Michigan Central Railway” line to the train ferry boat docks (just west of Crawford Ave.) nearby and a temporary spur line could have been constructed to the Huron Church Line (??) construction area. Maybe the Windsor Division of the Canadian Railway Historical Society could shed some light on it. Also, I’m curious about the extensive rail yard, showing many tracks and a crane.
I wonder if the second last photo with all the rail tracks was taken on the Detroit side.
Shawn, I believe it is. The railroad terminated in downtown Windsor (more or less), so there wouldn’t be any rails in place out in that section of Sandwich.
Unless they’re rails laid for construction. I don’t know enough about downriver Detroit, and very little about Windsor except for the CN trackage, but if you look in the third picture from the bottom, the rails there are unbalasted and look almost like panel tracks, that is pre-made sections of track laid in a manor not dis similar to Lionel toy train track.
On the second picture, is there any way you can blow it up to look at the recording marks on the gondola car? I can’t blow it up with good enough resolution to read anything except the word “Union” on the right side of it.
BTW, blow up the picture and note the steam locomotive in the right center.