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Giant rock, Great Gorge Route (Niagara Gorge Railroad), Niagara Falls.
Kind of nerve wracking to look at isnt' it? Feels like it's about to slump right over on top of that trolley car doesn't it? By its sixth year of operation, the Great Gorge Route was running trolley cars through the gorge every fifteen minutes, seven days a week. The route was however, closed seasonally– Between the first of May and April 30th was when most rockfalls would occur.
Even closed two months out of the year, the route was still boasting an average of 200,000 passengers. Erosion of walls became the biggest threat to the railroad, but let's get real, they should have seen that from the start. The Great Gorge Route was continually disrupted by rock fall after rock fall. Thankfully, in forty years of operation with over thirteen million passengers, not no one was ever struck by a falling rock.
