Transit 2

1872                                            Transit      2                                  1889

Wooden twin-screw crossriver passenger vessel and railroad carferry

Built at Walkerville ON by Henry Jenkins
Launched July 9, 1872

1 deck, coal-fired boiler, engine,

Enrolled at
168.0 x 39.0 x 14.6, 1057 GT     Can             to:
Great Western Railway  
Operated across the Detroit River between Windsor ON and Detroit MI

Entered service Sept 1872

Laid up 1884 at Windsor ON when str. Lansdowne entered service

Burned March 4, 1889 at the Grand Trunk dock at Windsor ON

 

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