Now it is time to move from one peninsula, Burin, to the next, Bonavista. We pass seemingly forever through Clarenville and then follow the shore before getting inland and driving towards Trinity our next stop. While Trinity is a historic town and worthwhile to visit on its own we actually are more curious about an abandoned site at the outskirts. Just finding and driving the one lane road is scary, if something would come at speed from the other side we would certainly crash but luckily we see no other car around during our visit.
What is so special about this site? Well first it was a railway line that connected Trinity with the rest of the state and then when it was abandoned it become an amusement park which in turn got abandoned. So there are a lot of abandoned buildings and train carriages to see and we are looking forward to it. And we don’t have to look far, we can find both buildings and the railway track right next to our parking place, it is quite a scenic location, if you like abandoned scary buildings.
We continue exploring and find a nice overlook of the area. There is an abandoned railroad bridge in one direction that we wouldn’t try for all the money in the world and a few abandoned houses below us that don’t look us interesting as the ones on top so we decide to stick with exploring the topside as it is also getting late.
We return to the train track and while exploring find a lost carriage. It feels like we are in a movie looking for the gold on a missing train in a far away jungle and that we just struck gold. Unfortunately it only feels that way, no gold is found in the carriage.
There is a string of carriages that can actually be entered so in we go. The first one was used as a camping spot or maybe for other purposes as there are a few matresses but then we enter the second one and are quite struck by the graffiti and how it really looks like an artwork.
We spend some time exploring this one and taking photos from all directions while being very careful about the glass that is covering the floor.
From the carriages you can actually enter the building that we saw initially, the train somehow melds with the building which likely was a stop when the train line was still working. This one is quite delapidated and we cannot even exit it as we know, and it can be seen in the first photo above, that the door is much higher than the ground. So we return to the carriage and there is a way to descend via the stairs back to our parked car. And then it is time to return to the main highway and drive to our last stop of our very busy day.
