The station above was on Devonshire Road in Walkerville. The station was designed by Detroit Architects Mason & Rice, in 1890. The station was demolished in 1957.
Here’s the site of the station today.
Today Via services are run out of the new Walkerville station, with talk of replacing this station with a new one.
The CN station was located on the waterfront at the foot of Goyeau in Windsor. It was built in 1884 and closed in 1961. It was demolished shortly after.
The photo above and below appeared in the Michael Gladstone White book “A Moment in time”, however as usual there is no credit given for the source of the images. The one below however ran in the Windsor Star December 30, 1952.
The Star at the time was calling for the end of this station, and the story alongside the photos read as follows:
The traveler who comes by train has already passed through London, and he undoubtedly remembers the station he saw there. The stations he sees reflect the life – or lack of it – of the communities he passes. This picture shows the Windsor waiting room. It has wooden floors, its door frames are old and scarred. In another day the glow from the old coal stove may have been a delight to the traveler, but in these times it looks incongruous. The same arrival may make the mistake of walking up the plank stair, and into one of Windsor’s toughest sections. If he finds his way to Ouellette, he finds no expansive view of the river, but in its place a barricade of old buildings. Windsor needs badly a new C.N.R. station, but it needs just a much a program to rejuvenate this vital area.
This station was located along the riverfront, built into the embankment for the bridge on Riverside Drive that crosses the rail cut.
The station was built in 1890 and designed by Edward Colonna, who was for a while the architect for the Canadian Pacific railroad, designing stations from coast to coast.
The station was located at the green arrow. Traces of the station can still be seen in the embankment, an old door and window, are visible in the brick wall.
This photo above is the first one I’ve ever seen of the original Michigan Central Station. This photo also appeared in the Michael Gladstone White book “A Moment in time”, without a source. He claimed in the book it was taken in 1907. He notes this station was located on the riverfront between Elm and Cameron. It must have been replaced shortly after as the new station opened in 1911.
The 1911 station has been covered here recently in full detail. It was torched by an arsonist in 1996.
More info on this station can be found on this post.
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The snack bars where a fixture in Dominion Store, they had the best fifteen cent hot dog in the sixties. With the takeover of Dominion by A&P ,the snack bars went.
The old C&O line now ends at the CP at Grand Marisin the north, an the old Canada Southern in the south. CN still uses the line east of Walker Rd.
Chris the station was abandoned after the line into windsor was abandoned even though the csx abandoned the line after the line was under the CN flag the csx still ran a train twice a week into windsor the line wnt as far as the Essex Terminal who did interchange business with the csx most of these movements were very early in the morning with the occasional late afternoon train the trains were dispatched out of chatham i think the fire that destroyed the station was in 89 or 90
i think of all the railroadsin the windsor are i liked the C&O the best not only because it was an american railroadbut because of it'sbranch line operations you never saw long trains on the line north of Pelton to walkerville they were always short trains you only saw the long trains with multable engines when they enter onto C&O trackage at pelton interlocking it was always the old blue gp7's,the strangest thing i ever saw on that line was one sunday morning i had my youngest son with me i drove to the walkerville station totake some photos of the geep and caboose and found to my delight an old western maryland chop nosed gp-7in the red white and black circus theme as it was known boy what memories
the reason that the Western Maryland engine was at the old Wlkerville station was because during the Chessie System years the western maryland was under the Chessie flag
The C & O railway mergd or got control of the Western Maryland, Baltimore & Ohio (US first railroad) and a Florida railroad. This became the Chesse System later changed to three letters and battleship grey locos.
The red white and blue circus colors where their Bicenteal paint scheme in 1976. the country not the railroad.
Richard the Western maryland actually had 2 paint schemes for their motive power black with yellow writing and the the red white and black which was know as the circus scheme i don't know why it was called that the three letters you refer to are the CSX there were alot of variations of this paint scheme as well they also brought the old family lines system under the CSX flag the old gray Louisville &Nashville this railroad's old gray units used to show up on the headend of chessie freights taking the wye at Pelton jct
the old pere marquette station in walkerville had a 2nd floor ocupied by the old Walkerville Coal %Coke company if you looked in the window of the main entrance door into the station and up the stairs they had the main entrance door to this office the class wash like they used to have in banks so you couldn't see thru it it wouldhave been worth trying to save this but i guess it perished in the fire along with everything else
For Amy and Bruce...
Amy, thanks for the description of the boarding house, which led to the link that Bruce sent with the photo. Thanks Bruce.
It's my understanding that my great grandparents ran the boarding house (which side I'm not sure - either Marentette or Revait family).
Can I assume the photo is from the rear of the building? I too remember going there as a kid for Pepsi. I lived in the old set of buildings nearby we called "the flats" with outhouses servicing quite a number of families and with everything else quite primitive, as you might imagine.
Anyone out there with a photo of the building from the other direction? Or, how about a photo of the old roundhouse that used to be quite near, as well.
I'm trying to search out Marentette and Revait family histories and this is a huge help along the way.
John Johnson
they showed a photo in yesterdays paper of what the new CN/VIA station is going to look like and you know what it looks almost identical to the new bus station where's the originality i just hope the railroad doesn't give the city a hand in naming it the windsor international train station and another thing that really gets my goat we have the PEACE FOUNTAIN ,THE PEACE BEACON and finally the PEACE CLOCK again i ask where the hell is the oriinality????
Amy I don't think that silo was for grain. It was for coal I played in it when I was a kid and would come home black.