Garbage Dumps of Ainsworth, Part 1

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This pile of decayed railroad ties, old tires, gravel and other debris sits on the empty strip of land between Ainsworth Road and the Grand Trunk Railroad. Its components have been there for God knows how long, but this piled-up configuration is of relatively recent origin — maybe 10 years, dating back to a time when some extensive work had to be done on the adjacent section of the track, and the railroad brought in a bulldozer and pushed all the scattered debris into a nice, neat pile to get it out of the way of the workers and their equipment.

A neighbor told me that that section of track tends to have problems because at the time Ainsworth Road was re-routed, the railroad did a slapdash job of deconstructing the old Ainsworth Road crossing. The work that resulted in this pile of garbage may have corrected the problems, if that story was correct.

With respect to garbage dumps, my dear friends, this is only a taste of things to come; but you will have to be patient, because Ainsworth's most intriguing garbage dumps are at present covered in dense summer vegetation and not easily photographed. I will cheer your winter hours with photos of the more interesting dumps if it doesn't snow too much.