The Lansdowne was completed in 1884, and served as a rail ferry between Detroit and Windsor until 1956. It was last used as a restaurant off Detroit in the 1980's. Since then it has been stripped down to structural members, two rail cars added, and it is hoped that it will be a restaurant again. For a number of years, it sat in Erie, PA awaiting completion as a restaurant, however those plans fell through. It now sits on the Buffalo River in Buffalo, awaiting new plans.

The two railcars appear to be the famous Skytop Lounge cars from the legendary Hiawatha Train of the Milwaukee Road Railroad, which provided high speed passenger service between Chicago and Minneapolis from the 1930's through the early 1970's.