Hello again! Yes, yes... we are still driving to the north end of the Island... it took a bit longer than the 4 hours that "normal" people would do... sooooo much "leg stretching"!
Anyhow... I put my paw down when I saw this sign... I'd heard of Woss and wanted to have a look at this place so that this little bear can do their own dawdling!
Now... Woss used to be a bustling little place back in the logging days... now it's kind of sad and dejected with hardly anybody around.
But... it does have a beary interesting artifact here... are you read??
Jerry & Ben?? Ready??
Tadah!!!!! It's an old steam locomotive!!!
Isn't it pretty??? Up until the mid 1960s, Woss was only accessible by rail... and then they did a lot of logging using rail as well.
We didn't know we would find this here... but that's what happens when you go off the beaten track, you find cool things.
It is locomotive 113 of the American Locomotive Company - made in 1920 by the Portland, Astoria and Pacific Railway.
Little Fox should know this company!
It is beary cool!
This is also a bit of a sad memorial. In 2018, 3 rail workers died when 11 railway cars, loaded with logs detached from the rest of the train in the reloading yard. The cars rolled backwards and crashed into a speeder that were working on the tracks. The speeder operator tried to apply breaks but... it was too much. It eventually derailed and 3 men were killed and 2 injured. The investigation found that the coupler connecting the cars to the rest of the train were faulty. And the cars should have derailed before they reached the speeder, but the railway ties were so rotten that when the cars hit the derailer, they just tore it out of the wood. So sad. (
Host of errors blamed in Woss derailment that claimed 3 lives - Victoria Times Colonist).
There's also an interpretive display here that tells you a bit about the history of rail in this area.
They have some crazy trestle bridges here!
And then there's this locomotive... not so interesting...
At least not to me!!!
And Minnie got out to stretch her legs!!! She needed it!
Almost to the North end of the Island!
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