In this week’s photo, we share an entertaining way to enjoy winter. Do you know where these revellers were headed or any of the history behind their means of transportation? (Photo courtesy of Muskoka Digital Archives)<\/strong><\/p>\n Wayback Wednesday is sponsored by Cavalcade Color Lab<\/strong><\/p>\n Last week we shared this photo of the Portage Flyer with you:<\/p>\n Nancy Long shared on Facebook: “That girl could be my godmother. She lived there …”<\/p>\n Also on Facebook, Cindy Dwayne Bucholtz said, “My mother has memories of the men getting off the train at the hill to help push the train to the top…she recalls jumping off to pick raspberries and having lots of time to jump back on…she still lives on Rat Bay road. Anyone know for sure who the girl in the photo is?? I’m gonna say the photo was taken mid 50s say 1956?<\/p>\n On Doppler, Dave Johns said, “The two smaller steam engines. It took two of them to make it up the steep grades. I\u2019ll go with 1930.<\/p>\n Warren Prince shared: “Was on that train with my grandparents circa 1949.”<\/p>\n Judy Pearson ventured: “I would guess 1951 or 52.”<\/p>\n Joy Salmon Moon said, “The only way to get to my great grandparents and my great aunts and great uncles and cousins at Fox Point Lake of Bays from 1928 to 1956.”<\/p>\n And Brian Tapley said, “I think it stopped running about 1959 so I\u2019m going to guess early to mid 50\u2019s say 1954. If I remember correctly it used to run front first from South Portage to a sort of Y at North portage where it reversed and backed out onto the dock. It then ran in reverse over the portage for the return trip so it was backed out onto the dock again. This way the heavy locomotives were never on the dock, just the cars.”<\/p>\n Thanks for your guesses and memories, everyone! The photo is from 1939 at North Portage, Penninsula Lake. The girl is Joy MacKay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this week’s photo, we share an entertaining way to enjoy winter. Do you know where these revellers were headed or any of the history behind their means of transportation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1903,"featured_media":24877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,24,865],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-24876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-photos","category-wayback-wednesday","tag-breaking"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2016\/12\/Wayback-Wednesday-49-Portage-Flyer-header.jpg\")
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