05/08: Out for a Drive
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
It is bit cool but sunny today, a good day for a drive. Ed and I went off in the Miata to explore some more of the local area. We decided to drive through Teviotdale to see the damage first hand. Two Mennonite families lived in the house that was badly damaged on Sunday. When we drove by we didn't see a damaged house, we saw a house being rebuilt. In the two and half days since the storm, upper floor of the house was demolished leaving the foundation and rebuilding had begun. Gotta love those Mennonites, they don't waste any time.
As with all "explore the countryside drives", we stopped along the way geocaching. Today's geocaching took us to several Ministry of Transport picnic areas that we didn't realize existed along a road that we drive a lot and to the town of Palmerston. The postal code for Palmerston is N0G 2P0 --- or "No one goes to Palmerston Ontario". At least that's one geocacher wrote in the description of the caches he set up in Palmerston. His caches took you to places of historical importance which were explained in the cache descriptions.
"The Pedestrian Bridge is considered Palmerston's most unique and treasured landmark. During the railroad's peak in Palmerston, the Grand Trunk had expanded the number of tracks in its yard to accommodate up to 40 trains a day. It became very tricky to pass over such a large number of tracks without some inherent dangers present. To minimize the danger for pedestrians, the Grand Truck Railway began building the Pedestrian Bridge in 1910 which was finished by 1912. This bridge allowed people to safely cross the train tracks and was often used by children walking to school." borrowed from the Palmerston Railway Heritage Museum website.
View of the old train station from the bridge.
Also borrowed from the museum website: "Palmerston's other treasured landmark is the old steam engine facing Main street. The old steam engine, called "Old 81" by Palmerston residents, is a memorial to the days when "Iron Horses" were stabled within the Town. It now stands on its own piece of track. Old 81 was presented to the Town in 1959, by the Canadian National Railway, as she had become an obsolete coal-burner, in comparison to the CNR's new diesel trains."
It was a good geocaching day as we found 15 caches.
"It's Mine". Zaph and Ed went for a poke around the boulevard and Zaph came home with a trophy he picked up in a pile of leftovers from a garage sale.
As with all "explore the countryside drives", we stopped along the way geocaching. Today's geocaching took us to several Ministry of Transport picnic areas that we didn't realize existed along a road that we drive a lot and to the town of Palmerston. The postal code for Palmerston is N0G 2P0 --- or "No one goes to Palmerston Ontario". At least that's one geocacher wrote in the description of the caches he set up in Palmerston. His caches took you to places of historical importance which were explained in the cache descriptions.
"The Pedestrian Bridge is considered Palmerston's most unique and treasured landmark. During the railroad's peak in Palmerston, the Grand Trunk had expanded the number of tracks in its yard to accommodate up to 40 trains a day. It became very tricky to pass over such a large number of tracks without some inherent dangers present. To minimize the danger for pedestrians, the Grand Truck Railway began building the Pedestrian Bridge in 1910 which was finished by 1912. This bridge allowed people to safely cross the train tracks and was often used by children walking to school." borrowed from the Palmerston Railway Heritage Museum website.
View of the old train station from the bridge.
Also borrowed from the museum website: "Palmerston's other treasured landmark is the old steam engine facing Main street. The old steam engine, called "Old 81" by Palmerston residents, is a memorial to the days when "Iron Horses" were stabled within the Town. It now stands on its own piece of track. Old 81 was presented to the Town in 1959, by the Canadian National Railway, as she had become an obsolete coal-burner, in comparison to the CNR's new diesel trains."
It was a good geocaching day as we found 15 caches.
"It's Mine". Zaph and Ed went for a poke around the boulevard and Zaph came home with a trophy he picked up in a pile of leftovers from a garage sale.