Windsor, ON: The Riverfront

The riverfront on the other side: Detroit.  And the contemporary Windsor riverfront

Michael Ferriss shared

Awesome photo. Credit to Michael Evans

Shawn Micallef

I believe the condo tower at Goyeau and Riverside was built approx 1989 (or so says sketchy realtor websites who are not the best fact chckers) and the Travelodge next door - not here yet - was built not long after that (I recall going in 1992 and it was "new"). Somewhere in that time frame? Def after 1986 as the Norwich Block fire had happened (the missing tooth).

Peter Dudley posted
This Canadian National Railway (CN) / Wabash Railway (WAB) rail passenger station was located near the Detroit River shoreline in Windsor ON (1939 photo, retrieved from
https://digital.library.wayne.edu/item/wayne:vmc63165_2).

Sean Trofin commented on Peter's post
The "Spirit of Windsor" steam locomotive static display now sits almost where the baggage carts are in this photo, now Dieppe Gardens. Here is a photo a couple of years after the old station was removed and the locomotive was placed in the new park. You can see the track bumpers behind the locomotive, the ones seen in the station photograph to the right.
Dennis DeBruler An interesting view of a ferry operation as well.

Carl Venzke posted
Circa 1952 - the Detroit River front, C.N. Rail Yard along the waterfront of Riverside Dr. E. At Goyeau St.
Daniel Hyde Bunch of Wabash diesels!!
Pierre Oliver Location is Windsor, Ontario.
The Wabash had running rights on the CNR from Windsor across the province to Fort Erie/Niagara Falls.
Dennis Kujawa You can see the Ambassador Bridge in the background!

Peter Dudley shared
This c. 1952 view of the Windsor ON riverfront includes the Canadian National Railway (CN) Boat Yard, as seen from East Riverside Drive at the foot of Goyeau Street.
Wabash Railway (WAB, note the covered-wagon units) enjoyed trackage rights along CN through southern Ontario, from Windsor to Fort Erie (across the Niagara River from Buffalo NY).

Greg Mross posted
CP 6704 switches one of the Detroit-Windsor railroad ferries in Windsor, ON in October of 1962. Little is left of railroads in this area today. John Ingles Kodachrome from my collection.
Greg Mross: David Schauer Way before the GM building that dominates the scene now.

Is this Windsor south of the Ambassador Bridge?

MHSD, 1976

Jon Bentz posted
Norfolk & Western's R.G. Cassidy with a car float at CN's Windsor slip on the Detroit River. 1983

Now the riverfront is further south.

This photo has been moved to "Detroit-Windsor Truck Ferry across the Detroit River."
This photo has also been moved to "Windsor, ON: ADM Grain Elevator, Steel Mill and Salt Mine on Detroit River."

This image has been moved to "Windsor, ON: ADM Grain Elevator, Steel Mill and Salt Mine on Detroit River."