From the collection of John Morand
A couple of more today from John’s family collection. This is the only underground photo in the collection, it is undated, but I’m going to put it around 1953/1954.
From the collection of John Morand
This one is dated 1954 and shows a view looking toward Sandwich Street. Not sure if this photo is before or after the big sinkhole.
I really like the last shot here. That locomotive looks strange. In 1954, ETR had a couple diesels, and that doesn’t look like any of them. It looks more like a tank engine (think Thomas lol) I wonder if the salt mine had its own loco for moving cars around to spot for ETR??
BUT….that’s an ETR caboose, likely the one found out in Amherstburg today at the gallery. Hmmm
Most class one railroads used steam on seconday lines,into the late fifties, so it would not be strange that switching lines are still useing steam in the mid fifties. Its possible could even have been ETR #9 last in Windsor in 2002,stil running in eastern Ontario.
Ha….I’m stupid. I was looking at the locomotive all wrong lol
It is a steam locomotive SHOVING the cars! No wonder the “front” or so I thought, looked all wrong! it’s the ass end of the TENDER! LMAO!
It could be #9 too, Richard. She wasn’t retired from service to act as a steam plant next to the engine house until 1960.
How can you guys tell that the locomotive is steam powered? My perception is that it is a light diesel switcher, cab end facing. Resolution at this end isn’t sufficient to make out the pertinent details, though. Can you shed some light, Andrew?
See, the cab is also what screwed me up. However, what I didn’t think was right for the diesels they had then was how the angle of the roof line was line was slightly crooked to the line of what I thought was the top of the engine compartment.
If you look at the caboose that’s right behind (or infort of actually) the engine, then notice the gap between the caboose, and the cab. You can see the cylinder and stacks of the boiler. The tender is now obvious to me as being an ETR on one of their 0-6-0 switchers like #9. On #9’s tender, just behind the coal hopper the body of the tender drops down and then levels out again before ending.
If you look at this pic, you’ll spot the tender right away in Andrew’s photo.
http://www.railpictures.net/images/d1/4/5/8/4458.1191963600.jpg
I WOULD like to see a blow up of that section though, if Andrew could treat us to one. lol
I can even see a white line on the side of the tender which would read “Essex Terminal Railway Company”
(I can’t read it, but that’s what it says there lol)
Andrew, the photo you show is dated October 1954. It shows the aftermath of a flooding event due to rainfall. The collapse was at the C.I.L. plant in Feb 1954. If I recall correctly, it was in Oct of 1954 that Hurricaine Hazel made its appearance.
Andrew: This is fascinating stuff and shows the area in and around the mines to be every bit the industrial town that Walkerville and Ford City each were.
Actually, it is likely a Joy drill used to put holes into the rock face in which to insertt the explosive. The mine in Windsor (ojibway) opened in August of 1955 and the photo is likely from that period.
The rail yard looks like it is from the Evaporarion plant site on Prospect Avenue located near the current water treatment plant and a couple of blocks from where the Lido used to ve.