The Other Things How tragedy helped end the last of Canada’s logging railways 11 May 201815 May 2018 BEAVER COVE I pulled over between two one-lane bridges to take pictures of the rail. Melani waited in the car, as she does every time I do this. I have…
Summer Ray’s Hill Tunnel and its abandoned Pennsylvania turnpike 14 Aug 201721 Aug 2017 BREEZEWOOD, Pa. — I had driven through the night, fueled by coffee and restored by an hour-long nap at a “unique area” in New York. I had detoured us to…
Summer Walking the abandoned rail bridge of North Anson 1 Aug 201616 Aug 2016 NORTH ANSON, Maine Sometimes you have to put off spontaneity. Like the time I rounded a corner and there was the most amazing rocky river and around the next bend…
Summer Intercolonial: The railroad that was almost a jewel in the Crown 23 Jul 201629 Jul 2016 AMHERST, N.S. I’m keen on the railroad, I tell people who ask, because of its role in building Canada, especially here, where Confederation could not have happened without this track…
Summer The failed marriage of rail and sea 7 Aug 201415 Aug 2014 TIDNISH BRIDGE, N.S. — Meet Henry George Clopper Ketchum, a guy with a dream. While this 1800s railway man laid track and made a name for himself as far away…
Life's a Trip 