At least as far as the most recent streetcar photos are concerned.
The photos below are the rest of the most recent additions to Bernie’s collection. Again, I can’t thank Bernie and John enough for their willingness to share and for the hours invested in front of the scanner 🙂
** I also found my street car list, so there will be a little more information on the various cars today.
This photo from 1919, shows the “Work Car”.
This photo also from 1919, shows and unspecified car.
Car # 101 in 1918, this was one of the Interurban Cars. The car was built in 1902.
Car # 56 from 1918. The caption on the photo reads: “Typical Belt Line or Sandwich Car”. This car was built in 1912 and was still in service when the streetcar system was shut down in 1938.
A view of the Car Barns on London St. (now University Ave.). The complex is the Junction today.
Car # 37 in a photo from 1918, denoted as being on the “Tunnel Route”. I’m not sure what that means, as the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel wasn’t built until 1930, although the rail tunnel was open. After 1919 this St. Louis built car was converted to a double ended car from a single end as seen in this photo.
From 1918, this photo is captioned: “Typical Car on the Ouellette Route”
From 1918, on Main Street in Sandwich on the private right of way. Main Street was paved over long ago and renamed Ojibway Parkway. This was likely on the part of the road around the poop plant today.
Another view of the London St. Car Barns from 1918.
Car # 29, another St. Louis product, in this photo from 1919. This car was out of the fleet by 1926.
An undated shot of the car bars. Likely from the 1930’s.
Car # 453, from 1925. Built in 1925 by the Ottawa Car Co. This car was brand new when this photo was taken. These series of cars were last ones bought. 451-453 were also the biggest ones in the fleet. They were 50’3″ long and had seating for 52 passengers.
Car # 452, the same as above, but built in 1924. As has been mentioned before, both 452 & 453 (above) were scrapped in 1938.
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Re: The poop plant area. There was a sort of spa in that area, just around or to the south of John B street, in the late victorian/edwardian era. They say you can see a depression in the land where the canal was. I could never see it, but it's there somewhere.
No ruins to be found of the spa that I could find over the years.
I am really enjoying this series on streetcars. Are there maps available indicating routes that these followed (SW&A and WE&LS)? Where did the WE&LS terminate in Windsor?
The 'spa' you refer to is perhaps the one referenced by Frederick Neal in 'The Township of Sandwich'. They were out to discover oil in the 1860s and discovered mineral water instead. It was the Sandwich Petroleum Oil Company.
I love this site.Its so nice to look at all the pictures of Windsor.The street cars are really interesting to see.Its to bad we don't still have some of them around so we could start them up again.It could be done and I think it would be a great for people to come to Windsor and see and use.It would draw people from out of town here.Maybe just one for the river front.From west to east Windsor along Riverside drive.
In Picture #6 (tunnel route) I am trying to figure out where that is in Windsor? I don't recall seing those buildngs ever in any picture. In fact it looks to me to be more of Detroit. Did we have any of our streetcars go to the MCS and then into downtown Detroit?
ME - That shot is taken at the corner of Ouellette and Riverside.
The building behind the street car is the old CIBC building that was demolished to make way for the CIBC tower.
None of our street cars went though the tunnel. Cross border service began with a bus in 1929 across the bridge, and eventually shifted to the tunnel.
ME, I think the rail tunnel accomodated passenger rail service at one time. I wonder too if these cars made regular trips under the river to MCS. Although, that does look like a busy street corner somewhere in a downtown.
Thanks Andrew no wonder I didn't recognize those buildings...they are all gone!
A big shout-out to Andrew, John and Bernie for sharing these photos with us. I LOVE these streetcars and wish we had the foresite to start planning a fixed-rail line in Windsor again. There would be no easier (note I did not say cheaper) one-off project that could work to revitalize our core.
The "tunnel route" at that time was most likely the foot/passenger tunnel that ran from the old MCR depot which was on the west side of the tracks and went under the tracks to the east side to a sidewalk on Wellington. That is where the streetcar would pick up and discharge passengers connecting with train. Andrew, if you look at the route map you received via email today, you'll see "Route 5 - MCRR Depot" - that's it.
As to the "Sandwich St. Private ROW" - that is Sandwich street just west of that gas station where Riverside drive meets with University today. The gas station today would be east of that streetcar in the photo. What was the private ROW then is now the south side of Sandwich from Detroit to University.