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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.
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Caption: 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.

Photographer:
Bill Thomson [715] (more) (contact)
Date: 05/00/1964 (search)
Railway: Canadian National (search)
Reporting Marks: CN Lansdowne (search)
Train Symbol: Not Provided
Subdivision/SNS: Detroit River (search)
City/Town: Windsor (search)
Province: Ontario (search)
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4 Comments
  1. Eric May
    June 6, 2016 at 8:35 pm

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

  2. Cdntrainphotog
    June 7, 2016 at 7:27 am

    Nice shot Bill. Another historic picture.

  3. awmooney
    June 7, 2016 at 7:45 am

    Now THERE is a history lesson!!!

  4. MrDan
    June 7, 2016 at 10:36 pm

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