#ss lansdowne

CN car ferry Lansdowne is pictured on 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 when she blew the cylinder head of her port engine. 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. She was scrapped in 2009.                                Photo by Bill Thomson.

The railroad car ferry SS Lansdowne underway on the Detroit River. Photo by Emory Massman/MHSD Collection.