If you like a walk in the woods, and you like seeing abandoned relics of times past, there is a wonderful old relic in the woods of Chili — an abandoned
railroad turntable pit build in 1910. The date is still visible engraved into the wall of the pit. It’s about a twenty minute walk from Ballantyne Road. (Kudos to Scot Lawrence for finding the turntable pit and putting up the
website about it).
The walk takes you across Black Creek on a beautiful old stone culvert (click picture to enlarge).
Then you turn off the main
Genesee Greenway path, and head along another much smaller path into the woods. The turntable will appear after about five minutes walk from the main Genesee Greenway path (click picture to enlarge).
Happy hiking!
2 comments:
I love being able to find these old benchmarks of the past when creeping around the woods! Up on top of a hill in Ellison Park there is an old placard, long faded and covered with sticks and mud, as a tribute to Butler's Rangers, a group of Whig resistance fighters during the American Revolution. I happened upon it one day whilst tramping around with a friend of mine and haven't seen it since.
I also enjoy visiting Mount Hope Cemetery. You find the graves of Colonel Nathaniel Rochester, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass and many other famous people, and the scenery is beautiful!
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