Historic Train Ride

One of the fun outings we made in Canada was to the historic South Simcoe Railway. This is just a few moments from my sister's place. It is a tourist train ride to let people have the chance to see what it was like to ride on line trains back in the old days of pre-automobile dominated Canada.

Liam is quite a train nut, so it seemed like a pretty fun thing for him to do. It was less of a new thrill for me... Rode the train to and from work every day for 7 years over here, and some of the trains certainly feel like they are over 100 years old too. For the little guys, it was something special though!

Here we approach the train and station. The back of the station has a big painting with a story about how it came to be.
First thing to do was queue up and get the tickets. Liam was already yelling at the trains and telling us that he could see Gordon. (from thomas the tank engine)We took a little stroll around the station and yard area so Liam could see the other trains and cars that were there. Liam did keep insisting that the big engine pulling the train we would ride was Gordon, despite the fact that it was a Diesel (Gordon is a steam locomotive.)
After the little walk around, we went ahead and got on board our train. Liam was extra proud to have a ticket all his own.
The boys were a little rowdy and not sitting still for a lot of the ride, but they were having a good time. Liam took a moment to give Grandma a big kiss.
Since this train is just a restored tourist attraction, it does not go anywhere. There is not even a circular track to ride on, you just chug along up a hill for a while, then the train reverses and heads back the same way.

Clearly the guys working on restoring the track had a sense of humour about this, because they have a nice destination sign posted to remind you where you are...
I think that is fitting, I can really tell people that my sister lives pretty close to the middle of nowhere now.