A few things from yesterday that slipped my mind. First of all, one the artifacts at Fort Ingall demonstrated a flaw in the reconstruction. It was a shaped log about six feet long and two feet in diameter. It had been part of the defensive outer wall. The current outer wall is made up of logs only about 6 six inches in diameter. I attribute this flaw to that fact that logs of the historically accurate size would be prohibitive expensive.
Also, as I was leaving Fort Ingall, I overheard some women asking about staying the night at the Fort. Apparently, it is possible to rent out the barracks building as a dormitory!
At one point on the Petit-Témis, someone had put up a railway crossing sign. I responded by making a low horn sound of two longs, a short and a long. ;-)
North of Edmundston, there is a complex of provincial attractions including a botanical garden and transportation museum. Outside the latter was an odd looking locomotive. It appeared to be a diesel shunting engine but its wheels were connected by a rod driven by some counter-weighted apparatus at one end. There was no sign explaining what it was. One thing that was clear was that it was quite heavy and that it had been there for quite some time, as the rails it was on had bent down around it!
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