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Games

Come in. Pull up a chair.

Trivia

The Board

Them days you sent a youngster up the road to say there was a game on. Now you send the code, and if a chair's still empty when you deal, one of the regulars takes it.

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Down the road

Well, Sunday after Mass we'd walk it. Start at the gate and go down, and every house along here I'll tell you who's in it.

Trinity Loop

trinity · The Bonavista Peninsula

Abandoned railway loop + dead amusement park near Trinity — kids remember the rides, explorers go for the ruin.

The Trinity Train Loop (Goose Cove, near Trinity) is a 1911 Reid Newfoundland / J.P. Powell grade loop around Loop Pond (~2 km, ~10 m drop) so narrow-gauge trains could reach Trinity without an impossible hill. Only loop of its kind in North America (BC cousins are inside mountains). Bonavista branch closed 1984; Clayton Cook saved it from scrap. Heritage structure 1988. Francis Kelly ran an amusement park on it until 2004 (train ride, bumper boats, mini-golf, Ferris wheel). Vacant since; Ferris wheel down; Hurricane Igor 2010. Crown RFP 2024 tourism redevelopment ($55k, derelict). Adventure visit — not a working park. Safety: ruins, bats, don't treat it as a playground.

The story they tell

Urban-explorer blogs sell it as a haunted amusement graveyard. Locals remember the park. The engineering story is the real gem.

How to get there

Goose Cove, beside Trinity: the 1911 rail loop wraps Loop Pond about 2 km around — a ruin walk on the old amusement-park grade, no ticket, no hours.

Mind yourself

Abandoned and unmaintained since the park closed: rusted rides, open water and broken ground. Walk the grade only, keep off the derelict equipment, and leave nothing but footprints.

Some story

Where that comes from

On the go

Them days the garden party was the whole summer. Here's what's on the go now, and when.

The kitchen

Well, Sunday the pot was on before Mass and the smell of it met you at the gate. Here's what was in it, and how it's done.

The hall

Them days the hall had a dance Saturday and the kitchen had music the rest of the week. It's still playing. Come in and listen.

The yarns

He said, you know the one about the light on the water. I said, I do. That's a story, mind, and I'll tell you which parts.

Not the house

No, I said, that's not the house. It was down just below there. Go back up the road.

Back up the road