Don’t get me wrong, I don’t encourage kids to sit hour upon hour in front of the television. However, when you have two kids under five who are overly active and have a hard time settling down, sometimes you have resort to the mind-numbing video pacifier for a while. The thing is, standard television doesn’t…Continue reading CN Freight Trains: A Show Of Gratitude To Mike Armstrong (Coasterfan2105)
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Forks Of The Credit Provincial Park: Icy Waterfalls In Ontario Deep Freeze
There’s been a lot of talk during the extreme arctic cold of 2015 about Niagara Falls freezing over on the American side. In fact, the waterfall is not frozen over but an ice dome (for lack of a better description) has formed over the flowing water. The Niagara River is still running, just underneath a…Continue reading Forks Of The Credit Provincial Park: Icy Waterfalls In Ontario Deep Freeze
Train Spotting Video Collection From 2014 (With A 2017 Update)
Train spotting. To some, the term means spotting or ‘collecting’ a series of trains, either engines or other components. To others, it’s a drug crazed movie that launched the career of Ewan McGregor. For me, I guess I like a little of both. The movie was good. In fact, the 1996 film Trainspotting was ranked…Continue reading Train Spotting Video Collection From 2014 (With A 2017 Update)
Ontario Autumn Foliage
Some years, the late summer and autumn weather in Southern Ontario quite frankly trumps the weather in June and July. Some years, like this year, it’s a continuation of the same crap that we seemingly have had since last year at around this time. However, when the weather is nice into September and October, the…Continue reading Ontario Autumn Foliage