That's not the Red Ensign National Flag... it's the flag of the Province of Ontario, which is similiar.
AMTK 344 leads Maple Leaf changing crews before heading across the border to New York City. May 1981
This through VIA/Amtrak train began operation April 26, 1981 over CN
and replaced the VIA service (RDC) over CPR/TH&B via Fort Erie and
Black Rock to Exchange Street in Buffalo.
....below......Back to the future.... maybe. Makes sense!
CPR passenger trains used this station in Windsor also to and from Detroit after tunnel opened. Bill Thomson
Note the mechanical train order hoops!
Of course we could always go back to this to get to Detroit.
Michigan Central car ferry Detroit of Detroit. Winter 1905
Sold 1910 to Wabash following opening of Detroit River Tunnel.
Ferry service ended April 30, 1994