This excellent photo come to me from regular reader Doug S. who got permission from the photographer Charlie Whipp to post it here. Thanks to both Doug and Charlie for this amazing shot…
The photo dates to May, 1974 and is a shot of Canadian National’s steam engine 6060 at the waterfront roundhouse.
Here’s a map for reference showing the location of the roundhouse on the waterfront. As you can see the roundhouse was just east of Louis Ave.
Doug also sent along info that 6060 is still around. The 4-8-4 is in Stettler, AB (between Calgary & Edmonton) and is operated as a tourist train by the Rocky Mountain Railroad Society.
More info on the engine can be found here: http://www.6060.org/Default.aspx
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Nice!
too bad we didn’t keep that roundhouse on the water. it would have made a real nice addition to the waterfront park IMO. we could have had something similar to roundhouse park in toronto.
Thanks Andrew, Doug and Charlie!
Keeping the roundhouse or any railroad related item was a no no in the sixties and seventies, get the trains, and tracks off the riverfront was the cry of the day.Manny council people pushed for this, including Bert Weeks who has a park named for him, or is that what is dug up for the retention pond?
The only remnents of the railroad and the river are the ferry ramps, and the tool shed renovated for a couple of hundred thoughsand dollars. The blue builing with the car trim over the doors.
No room for a dirty oily roundhouse on our prestine waterfront, now currently all dugup.
I won’t swear to it (I was in Colorado by this time), but I think this was the last visit by mainline steam to Windsor. The “Bullet Nosed Betty” was the last steamer operated by CN in exsursion servie after #6167 and #5218 were retired. As an aside, probably the last steam visit to Windsor was during the Essex Terminal Railway’s 100th anniversery in 2002 when ET 0-6-0 #9 visited from St. Thomas.
typo alert. It was #6218.
I was the luckiest kid in Windsor back in the 50’s, my grandfather got me a ride on a steam locomotive that went into the Roundhouse.
Just incase anyone is interested…..in 2012 ETR #9 will be returning to Windsor.
Great news, Aaron! I lived on Louis just a steps away from the ETR tracks when they were doing rides on the train in 2002 – their 100th. Do you know if they’ll be celebrating on the same scale as they were the last time?
I’m pretty sure John. I can’t see her steamin’ all the way down here on her own for anything less. I think she was supposed to come in 2011, but has been out of service with some kind of issue that isn’t easily fixed since 2008. They wanted to get all her bugs out before sending her down here. Now that SOLRS has an actual engine shop in St. Jacobs they’ll be able to do the work.
Hopfully we(SOLRS)have our old ex-ETR diesels (101,103 and ex-Wabash S-3)that are out in A’Burg running smooth and painted up in time. Then we can run our engines as the back up/guard instead of ETR’s regular engines like last time…which, you just might see me running 😉
Great, Aaron. I remember last time they used the switcher 104?. Keep us up to date and I’ll look forward to seeing you at the throttle.
I am currently modeling #9 in brass and trying desperately to get detail pictures or info of her. All of my inquiries about this have fallen on deaf ears. So I am really looking forward for her to be in Windsor, so I can get some detail photos of her, so I can finish this two year project.Please keep me informed as to when. Thanks
Isn’t #9 in St. Thomas right now? If you are modelling in brass it might be worth your while to drive up and get some shots of your own. There is a whole series on my Flickr page you asked to use and are welcome to do so, although they are digital photos 10 years old now and not of high enough resolution to crop-zoom.
#9 moved several years ago to Waterloo.
More info is available here: http://waterloocentralrailway.com/about/southern-ontario-locomotive-restoration-society-solrs
Thanks for the invite John. I probably have downloaded thirty to forty shots off the net.
And JBM you’re right about it being in Waterloo. I have sent them Email inquiries and they have all been unanswered (even though they state that they answer in about five days). I don’t know if I took the three hour or so drive to the Elmira yard, whether I could get in to take pictures. Right now I’m in need of pictures of both sides from the ash pans, back. Thanks
Oh, I neglected to mention that I have ridden on the 6060 in the early seventies on an excursion run, out of Niagara Falls…(still have the tickets)
John: are you the John Tiz on Flickr page? If you are there are two or three good reference
shots I could use. I just need the permission.
Yup that is me, Dennis. You are welcome to use anything you find there that might come in handy.