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NIAGARA FALLS, ONTARIO, GORGE RAILWAY
[Welland Tribune, 7 June 1898]
We enjoyed a trip to Lewiston and return on the Gorge railway on Sunday, and found it a wonderful experience. One never knows how beautiful the cliffs on our own Canadian side are until they see the tree-covered talus and jutting crags from the American shore. This is the line from which to see the miles of wild rapids and whirlpool, for the cars, soon after starting from the soldier’s monument at Prospect park, make the whole journey of seven miles along the American shore of Niagara river, twenty feet above the wild waters, to the pretty village of Lewiston. The whole view enroute is wild and grand, and cannot be equalled anywhere. Fine views of the Falls, whirlpool, bridges, devil’s hole, and Brock’s monument on Queenston Heights can be obtained from the comfortable trolley cars. The line is double-tracked, and protected by guard rails. Close connections are made with the Toronto boats and Youngstown electric railway at Lewiston, and with all the railways and Buffalo electric cars at the Falls, the visitor cannot really “do” the Falls without seeing the rapids-all of them: and the Gorge railway is pre-eminently the “rapids route.”
Through the Gorge by Trolley, Niagara Falls, N.Y.
The trolley on the Great Gorge Route is passing the Giant Rock beside the Devil’s Hole Rapids. Today, Devil’s Hole State Park has picturesque hiking and nature trails. Remnants of the trolley lines on the Niagara Gorge Trail remain.
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