Happy Friday once again everyone. Today is an undated photo of the Walkerville Area from above. I’m guessing the date to be about 1970 or so. The old Train Station is gone, and the Waterfront Ford Plant # 1 is also gone. It was demolished in 1969. So I doubt that the picture is from much later than 1971 or 1972.
Lots of lost Windsor in this picture…
The old Fisher Body plant on St. Luke. Burned in a fire.
A big old factory (part of Studebaker?) on Walker. This was directly across the street from the Seagrave Building. Maybe someone will remember this place, and what happened to it. Today it is a vacant lot.
The old Walkerville Fire Hall on Richmond and Walker. Since replaced with a more modern station.
This house was on Kildare just south of Wyandotte. It was demolished in the late 1990’s to expand the parking lot for the funeral home.
This big old place was replaced with this:
Have a good weekend everyone, see you back here Monday.
One of my favourite areas in Windsor. I wish I was around longer to really remember the Peabody Bridge and the railway on the riverfront.
Every time I cross the tracks at Walker in between Wyandotte and Riverside, I catch myself look at the railway switches that had lines running parallel to Walker. I was wondering if anyone has more pictures of these tracks. I believe they ran all the way down Walker to the CASO line but have not been lucky enough to find pictures on it.
kyle
i dont myself have any pictures but what you can try if you havent already is google specifically what you are looking for and then click on images and you may be surprised what may come up.i was able to find some pictures doing that on some stuff i was trying to look for.see what happens.
Kyle the Tracks that your referring to were the old PM/C&O if you look up Pelton Interlocking here you will see color photos of the CASO and the C&O these tracks ran all the way to ST. Thomas ontario
in the photo with the C&O railway line it’s nice to see the old GP7 dieseli’m betting it’s heading out of town timetable east bound geographically south as a kid we were fortunate to get rides on it once in awhile
Kyle the next time your driving across the tracks on walker near the train station on the south side of the tracks you’ll notice if it’s still therea stop sign that was to indicate that trains leaving the old PM station on devonshire road had to stop before proceeding around the curve to head south ,you sound like a your a railfan here and there there are remnants of that railroad the lot where the former station stood still has parking lot spaces that say C&O staff their pretty rusty but you can still see the writing and behind the Salvation Army thrift store on walker road is an old cement pad that once had an old semaphore signal tower mounted on it
The big old house which was torn down to make a parking lot for W. Kelly Funeral Home was the offices of Dr Foster. If memory serves it was pale green( dare I say?) stucco. I’m not sure if he lived on the second floor. Dr Foster was also the Medical Officer for RCAF Reserves which closed down in Windsor in 1962. He flew his own plane and would often leave his waiting room full , and go flying for an hour or two, with little regard for his waiting patients.
Another stunning aerial photo of the city, and as always, a treat for an ex-pat Windsorite like myself, ever nostalgic for home.
I read somewhere about a northbound (timetable west?) of a PM/C&O mixed train (carrying passengers also freight cars) heading north parallel to Walker heading to the station on Devonshire, and went through an open switch (naughty, naughty!) which was erroneously set for entry into a siding (possibly the GM transmission plant) and collided with some parked cars there. Can’t recall any details. Hoping some Windsor-area railfans will fill us in. Thank you.
“A big old factory (part of Studebaker?) on Walker. This was directly across the street from the Seagrave Building. Maybe someone will remember this place, and what happened to it. Today it is a vacant lot.”….
Not sure if that was the Studebaker factory, but it was from the early 1900’s — I had a studio in that 985 Walker Rd. building in the early, thru mid 1980’s…. it burned to the ground on the long weekend in July 1985 – and took EVERYTHING with it. It was completely built of wood on the interior (floors, ceilings, posts, and beams) and it went up in smoke fast on a weekend night. I am not sure they ever found out how or why it caught fire. Many tenants lost very valuable belongings. If you send me a higher rez shot, I can help you with identifying more buildings along Walker and the area Andrew. Thanks for the post.
I don’t wish to be negative on this wonderful blog of yours but that’s one heck of an ugly monstrosity they replaced that big, beautiful home with. No character whatsoever.
I understand that not every building can be saved nor that they should be but why are they replaced with such bland, boring muck?