Ah, the good old days when you could videotape public structures without being called a terrorist.

So much has changed since this video was filmed. Now you would get shot if you got that close to the tunnel in the beginning.

The zero clearance between the locomotives and cars next to the walkway platforms just makes me weak at the knees. Hope no one was ever foolish enough to explore those tunnels at track level. Great video BTW.

Interesting at 0:21-0:22 minute mark, the video catches a truck with the word HOVER, a Defunct 90's Trucking Company out of Indiana

Cool! Looks like two brand spankin new AT&SF GP60B's!!!! @ +5:51and again @ +6:41. Those Canadian roads... what bombers!!!! always seem to be haulin ass!!!

I’ve been through that tunnel a few times when the engineer shut off the lights about halfway through one time pitch black! I always expected to see giant rats down there but never did...

Those Santa Fe GP60B's look so clean they could almost be models! Nice video.

what a fantastic video! love the older equipment- grew up with that LOL- nice SOO and CN trains! nice to see the ol' barge too!

Great footage! Shows how times have changed so much, especially on the Canadian side which I am more familiar with. Thanks for sharing your video.

Cool upload. I used to work for the Tunnel Company (the automobile tunnel)in about 1975. It was a pretty 'odd' job. I'd walk down to the international border (a line of black tiles) and talk to my Canadien counterparts.

nice job and cool shot of the auto racks being moved across the Michigan river

You can see the trace marks from the old steam locomotive coal stains when they used to run or unless it's the diesel that did it.

The lack of graffiti on the cars really stands out compared to today

A variety of classic motive power and rolling stock. Excellent train catches. 😊👍

Things have sure changed since these scenes were filmed!

Great video. Thank you so much for uploading this!

Wow, you have the best videos! Thanks for sharing!!! Really, the BEST!

Amazing how fast they go through

Great quality video...thank you posting this!

Wow there's not much clearance in those tunnels.

There were some poor bastards that got caught in that tunnel when a train went through. I can't imagine what it must be like to be staring at an oncoming freight train with nowhere to go. Nice vid.

Conrail #3279 is an ex-Reading GP40-2. Nice catch!!

Was cool seeing all those new Dodge Caravans at 4:30 leaving Windsor Assembly. I remember seeing trains carrying new cars often but I never see that anymore.

I remember when I first moved to Windsor in 1997 I always use to catch & watch the trains coming & going into the Windsor/Detroit tunnel. I'm from a small town called St.Marys which is in-between London,Ontario & Stratford,Ontario & I use to watch the CN Snowplows back when I was a kid/teenager & early adult. I have many hours of CN Snowplow tape footage of these CN Snowplows as well as the old steam engine Snowplows on tape that my GrandFather gave to me. There isn't much action in the Essex c

Open autoracks. Awesome! Any more videos from the early 90's?

Nice video! I miss the Roadrailers!

Awesome video!

Excellent vid! Very good video quality too! If you have any more Windsor area railfan vids of that vintage I would LOVE to see them!

That's wonderful

where were does cars going to canada or usa on those trians and inside the auto racks

That must have been one hell of a ride in the old days before dynamic braking

I like those GP60-b units.

wow amazing video. If you have more of windsor/detroit i would love to see it.

What a great video this is !

beautiful tunnels !!

1:59 What is inside that doorway between the two tunnels?

That shot of CN on the CASO looks to be filmed at concession road 9 looking east towards Essex....I think

Great consists - where's the graffiti? LOL! Hadn't become the thing to do yet, I guess. Love that barge, too. Great video! Thanks for posting!

@RailfanJames What happened to it?

Years ago there was a plan proposed to pave the side that is no longer used and allow trucks through there to eliminate the traffic on the Ambassador Bridge. I believe the owner of the bridge sued and won to stop the project. He tried to sue to stop the new Gordie Howe bridge but failed in that lawsuit.

Neat footage!

5:00, A caboose!

Have all kinds of questions. As they are going into that tunnel is that like a 3 percent downhill grade? Do both tunnels work or it just one? If this a double track mainline, they are they on the left side? Do Canadian train run on the left, too?

Neat video! A lot of cool old engines and graffiti free cars and walls. That really was a tight fit for those trains in the tunnels. I bet there was quite a breeze blowing out of those bores before the trains came out.

I bet 😐 that tunnel hasn’t been checked for cracks since, 1983! 😑 nor the rails and trains 🚊. Lol.

@RailfanJames I was referring to the Pizza-Faced Alco in front of it.

How do they keep air in the tunnel from being polluted? It must be pretty bad while the train is going through.

How long are these tunnels

@RailfanJames wasnt it C424, i could be wrong

never saw the detroit side I worked at the windsor end they only use the 1 track now due to the autoracks

Great stuff just found it

Could I ask something?

At 5:55, are those Santa Fe B units?

Way cool man good job

Is this tunnel still used today

It's a CP MLW M630 4569.

04:17 great caboose!

thats one craze tunnel O.O

what are those santa fe trains that have no cab

I believe they enlarged the tunnel moutha to allow larger trains to use it later on.

Can autoracks fit?

they have really cleaned up the windsor side over the years

Is the Detroit side too risky to railfan?

Agreed gents low clearance no auto racks or Inter modal

I like the caboose at 4:17

They don't build those tunnels any bigger than they have to be! God help anyone in there when a train comes.

bummer !! no space for 2 stacked units nor excess height cars

Go into the tunnels

bei mercioni americani ma sono incredibilmente lenti mi sembra che non superino i 60 km orari e poi la trazione e esclusivamente diesel

Dear lord whats up with that loco @ 3:09

Recent events will make this route effectively abandoned.

That's how you get to Canada or to the U.S.

😐 dam seagulls! 🐦!

Back when I was a kid I use to watch the train go in the tunnel. Then in my early 20's I herd of these idiot kids who actually walked through it and the cops and train cops were waiting at the other end for them. lol. Idiots! If you do that then it holds up business because they have to stop all trains till they fix there problem. And when I was kid I went in there for something to do, tunnel. and found a shovel that I threw down into the snow that had fell a few days ago then along came this truck to tracks along with some guys in it grabbing it and yelling F/N Kid! I must had dropped the shovel by this sensor just by the entrance that turned on there tracker and they came to investigate but by then I was watching ducked down on the black bridge snickering from my 15 yr old face. lol. I wasn't a bad kid just choosy at the things I did back then.

Don't bother wasting your time shooting in essex county, most of the trackage is gone.

Diesel was invented by a socialist...an energy source for the people, cheaper, albeit not as efficient as Petra’s or gas depending on which side of the pond you’re on. German fella. Socialist have a great history of inventions that turn out to be ‘problematic. The last Labour (left) government in the U.K. encouraged strongly buying diesel fuelled cars. Wonder if electric cars are gonna end up the same way.