The S.S. Keewatin in Port McNicoll, Ontario.
If you are looking for a local ghost tour you don't need to drive as far as Toronto.
My sister-in-law's Father was a part of the group who keep this ship in good repair and run the tours and other public events around it. I haven't visited it yet so the photograph here is not my own.
Photo Source: Older than the titanic with more ghosts & spirits than anywhere in the world - Barrie 360
How strange would it look to see huge white airships floating around in Northern Canada? They could be mistaken for fluffy clouds, I don't think they would even be noisy unless they came lower to land. If it could work, I wonder why it hasn't had more interest. They could cost less than running vehicles which run on fossil fuels.
Barry Prentice, president of Buoyant Aircraft Systems International, says airships can provide a lower-cost solution to transport cargo to remote areas, including Northern Canada. He hopes to fly airships to the North one day.
"Something like 70 per cent of our entire landmass has no roads. And if we're going to have access to that area ... we need a means to get there. And the airship offers that solution," says Prentice.
Prentice tells Tremonti that airships would lower the costs by a quarter of what is being spent to fly supplies in to remote areas — the savings have a lot to do with size.
"Airships can get much better as they get bigger ... something over about 10 tonnes is the starting point in terms of the short haul moves in say Ontario and Manitoba," says Prentice.
There are critics who argue the airship industry would cost too much to set up but Prentice says the alternatives converting ice roads to gravel roads, paying for trucking and maintenance doesn't compare. He says airships don't need that infrastructure.
CBC - How airships could make life more affordable in Northern Canada
If you were to divide urban exploration into three basic groups I think it would have to be buildings, drains/tunnels and the third would be transportation. I could be wrong and, no doubt, the whole thing is debatable. However, when I think about trying to fit in the various exploring locations and structures, that's how I sum it up.
It's all part of urban exploration. Explorers aren't just in the city looking at old buildings. Urban explorers are rooftopping, looking underground in tunnels and drains. Urban explorers are in rural areas too, looking at abandoned farms, farm equipment, old churches and so on. Urban explorers are in industrial places, looking at abandoned and derelict mines, steel plants and industrial machines they may never see anywhere else.
Airplanes, aircraft, trains, ships and boats are the transportation sort of wrecks you might think of first. There are also car wrecks, but none of these are photographed at the scene of a horrible accident. People who chase wrecks (as urban explorers) are not the ambulance chasers or reporters trying to win a spot on the front page of a newspaper.
Wreck chasers are looking for the neglected, abandoned and forgotten wreckage from the transportation industry: trucks, cars, ships, boats, planes, trains, city.
Far from looking for human pain and suffering, wreck chasers are looking at the pain of the abandoned machines, the rusted out hulks and the sadly decayed remains of the man made, mighty machines.
Myself, I have found abandoned trains, abandoned tractors and mainly abandoned vehicles: cars and trucks and one city bus.
I've seen one abandoned car, left to die after it was damaged in part of a house fire. Another was left at the site of a house which was being demolished to make way for a shopping plaza or maybe new housing so there would be someone to shop at the plazas already in the area.
The abandoned bus I found was behind a fence, far outside the city of Toronto, where the bus had originally run in it's day.
The abandoned train was on an abandoned, forgotten train track. Far out in a rural area, I found two trains, one a much older train than the other. Both had the big engine and several cars in between. Only the older one had a caboose.
If you drive on the highway between Toronto and Hamilton you may notice an old tall ship floating at a bend in the road. It was once made over into a restaurant. Sometime later vandals set it on fire. There isn't a lot left of the old ship now. But, you can get there, just off the highway, if you study the map a bit and find the exit.
I've yet to see an abandoned airplane. Likely you would find some at airports, planes which someone used to own and then didn't come back to maintain or fly any more.
Thirteen reasons to have a car:
Support the insurance and banking industries so they can keep building skyscrapers to support the construction industry.
Road trips!
The smell of gas as you fill the tank.
Avoiding waiting outside for buses that are always late and later.
Those little mirrors are really good for plucking eyebrows and those irritating facial hairs we don't admit we get.
You're not a vulnerable, squishy pedestrian.
You get your picture on a license.
You can pack a lot more shopping into a car than you can carry on the bus.
You can take a lot of junk out of your purse and stash it in your car instead.
The radio sounds better when you're driving.
At night you can pretend you're famous and stand in the beam of your headlights. (Like I'm really the only one who has done that!)
If you run away from home (or need some other quick get away) you don't have to stick around waiting for the bus.
It gives you something to put all those bumper stickers on.
Don't own a car, just borrow one for an afternoon of shopping or a weekend away. Pick it up in your area and drop it off for someone else to pick up. "Drive Zipcars by the hour or day. Gas, parking, insurance and 150 free kilometers are included with every reservation. No monthly membership fees. No deposits. (Sweet, huh?)"