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Windsor’s historic Streetcar No. 351 has been hoisted into its permanent home.
Using a small crane, a crew on Thursday moved the 24,688-pound tram from a flatbed truck and into the waterfront Legacy Beacon structure at the foot of Caron Avenue.
The 1918 streetcar was discovered inside an old Belle River cottage 16 years ago and donated to the City of Windsor, which spent around $750,000 on its restoration.
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For roughly $10.3 million, the city erected a structure to house and display the streetcar. That structure along Windsor’s Detroit River park trail will also contain washroom facilities, food service, and a patio area.
To accommodate the streetcar’s move from storage and further construction of the Legacy Beacon, a stretch of the riverfront trail from Crawford Avenue to the C.M.H. Woods Pumping Station will remain closed until Aug. 3.
According to the city, the Legacy Beacon – Streetcar Project is situated adjacent to a historic railway tunnel and original station tower entrance. It will be the third of five destinations and landmarks along the Detroit River that will explore themes of integration of landscape and building, the history of the Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway, ecology and sustainable development.
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