SilverRails.net

Unfortunately, I am a non technical person and have very basic computer skills so it took a while to fix the link to YouTube.
Any correspondence I had with them was one sided, but, it was eventually solved with the help of a very patient admin at this site.

The past three weeks have been relatively quiet as far as house projects go.  The weather has been unseasonably warm, more like the dog days of summer, so we've been pacing ourselves, easing into the grunt work of leveling and seeding the lawn on the west side of the house.
We toiled on the east side last year and were rewarded this spring with a lush looking lawn.  With much watering, the new side has come along quite nicely but unfortunately because of the hot arid weather the east side has all but dried up and died.  We're not sure of the wells capacity and have no idea how long this dry spell will continue so we'll just have to ease up on the nurturing element.

A few weeks ago there was a derailment in Smiths Falls,  a few grain cars were involved so for two days there were no passenger trains between Smiths Falls and Brockville.  Of course the night train didn't miss a beat;  it made its usual awful sounding pass by our home, right on schedule.  Doug stopped and talked to a work crew who have been working for a couple of days at the rail crossing.  They were laying an underground cable that will supply current to the wigwag gates that will be installed later this year.  Apparently the speed on this line will be increased to one hundred miles per hour which requires the installation of the safety gates. 
I did a bit of research on the line by our house and found it was originally registered as the B & O Railway.  My first thoughts were of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad but further investigation revealed it to be the Brockville and Ottawa Main Line, made sense.
I found this info on a very interesting site: www.railwaybob.com/IndexEastOnt.htm and I quote from their site.
"Rails were first laid in 1858 and the Main line from Brockville to Smiths Falls was opened on January 10, 1859.  On August 22, 1859 the B & O main line was opened from Smiths Falls to Carleton Place.  The "Ottawa" in the B & O name did not refer to the City, but rather to the river.  In 1853, the future capital of Canada was a small village called Bytown."  It is now a CPR line.