Comments on: CN Car ferry “Lansdowne” is pictured in the Detroit River at Windsor in May 1964, loaded with open autoracks full of new vans. Lansdowne was the last sidewheeler paddle boat operating on the Great Lakes, originally built in 1884 and taken out of service in 1970. After that it had a varied life as a restaurant (with a pair of former Milwaukee Road Skytop Lounge cars on its deck), and was tied up at several US ports and allowed to deteriorate.

By: MrDan

MrDan — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 02:36:22 +0000

I love how CN painted it their blue and red colours, like so many of their stations were.

awmooney — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 11:45:34 +0000

Now THERE is a history lesson!!!

Cdntrainphotog — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 11:27:32 +0000

Nice shot Bill. Another historic picture.

Eric May — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:35:18 +0000

Nice to see an in service shot. I’d bet that all those vans have been scrapped as well.