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Once the rails came off then people started taking the ties off the trestle as well and some of that was just out and out vandalism. They would pry up the ties and drop them over the side. And, as they would drop they would break the pieces of wood underneath. So a lot of the damage was caused by that kind of vandalism. Some of it was just vandalism for the sake of seeing what would happen when they threw the wood over. But one day when I was out for a walk I heard some noise at the trestle and I found there was a crew of people stealing the ties from the trestle. They had a couple of trucks and a big winch and they were winching it off so I went up to one of the operators and said, well, it looks like you are vandalizing the trestle and stealing the wood. And he said, "Oh,oh no we wouldn't do that. We are only pulling up the ones that other people have dumped off the side".

So I said oh, that's interesting, well it sure looks like you're pulling them off the trestle. "Oh, no we wouldn't do that!" So I went down to the house and got on the phone to the police and they sent out an official RCMP 4x4 which came bumping down the tracks and the people who were stealing the wood were heading away with a full load and the police blocked their way and everybody stopped and all the local kids were watching the drama and the men had to explain to the police why they had wood in the back of their truck.