Railroad: Canadian National railroad
Built/Acquired: 1884
Crossing: Detroit River
End of Service: 1956
Disposition: Scrapped in 2009.
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Type: Side-wheeled paddleboat.
Image info: Top, a view of the Lansdowne crossing the Detroit river with a passenger train.
Known as the SS Lansdowne.
1970. The cylinder head on the Lansdown's port engine ruptures and she is now used as a barge on her old route on the Detroit River. She was withdrawn from service in 1975.
2008. The Lansdown has been scrapped. It enters service in November, 1884 on the Detroit River ferrying railroad cars between Windsor and Detroit. [MRF-2008-06]
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