Originally Posted by
aglauser
There are some bridges out on the Kissing Bridge Trail, so some on-road diversions (or stream fordings) are required. Also, the maintenance gets much worse toward Millbank.
I agree that the TCT can be difficult to follow, and is somewhat disappointing in the sense that so much of it is on-road, especially through cities.
Yeah. To cross the Grand river requires a detour on line 86 or through West Montrose over the kissing bridge. Unfortunately, the CPR was so concerned with liability, they removed all the bridges on the line the day after they shut down the rail line.
Not only the bridge over the Grand, and the Wallenstein bridge, but they removed all the smaller ones over every creek and drainage ditch.
I grew up in Floradale, a little over a mile from where the trail crosses road 19. I'm old enough to remember when the CPR ran steam trains on that line, the last of which was in 1961. The water tower and station in Elmira stood into the 70s, so they weren't too concerned about liability back then.