Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Windsor, ON: Ford Power Plant and Engine Factory

Power Plant: (3D Satellite)
Factory: (Satellite)

This plant doesn't have any coal handling facilities. I presume this tank means that it was built using fuel oil. I would guess that it now uses natural gas because there is a co-generation plant on the west side of the old plant.
Street View, Nov 2022

Marine Historical Society of Detroit posted
The tanker Texaco Brave. Date not noted.  Location listed as Detroit (although this volunteer doesn't recognize the location). Richard (Dick) Wicklund photo/MHSD.
Sam Buchanan: Docked on the Windsor side, just downstream from the Ford Foundry.
Fred Bultman: The church and power plant are still there.
Dennis DeBruler: Fred Bultman The church is now an event space, https://maps.app.goo.gl/TrPUXH62Hwh7uGrE9
 
Rick Flickr, Dec 2010
Ford Power Plant
The Ford Power Plant in Windsor, Ontario, Canada as photographed from Belle Isle Park in Detroit. This is an Albert Kahn designed building.
Photographed with an Olympus E-PL1 using an Olympus 14-150mm lens.

I wonder if the engine plant can be converted to make electric motors.
Ali Hachem, Aug 2023

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