Biking (and writing) on the P’tit train du Nord

I have always bemoaned the slow, inexorable vanishing ofCanadian trains. Steam-powered railways were integral to the building of Canada as a nation. Trains were thearteries connecting the heart of our country with its limbs, opening settlement in the west. But everyone drives now – there are highways and (if we’re lucky) buses, where once there were only trains. At the very least, I think, cities should have some link with the transportation of their past. St John’s, NL, for instance, has a l...