While walking the Bruce trail in Hamilton Ont. and doing steel wool photos. We came across a very small manhole and saw it was easily opened.
We looked down at the smallest ladder access to a tunnel that I have ever seen! After a little bit of discussion we made our way down and it was tighter than I thought it would have been. With my arms tight at my sides and my hands at my chest I slowly moved down, until I looked up and saw a couple of huge black and green spiders! That made the descent down way quicker and got me some large scrapes on my leg lol I am not super scared of spiders but when you aren't used to seeing ones of that size, have never seen that coloring on them and have them that close too your face. Well lets just say I wasn't sitting still!
(This was a view through another manhole that we found while inside)
When I reached the bottom of the ladder it was still just as tight, with a 2 foot tall tunnel on one side.
Those black spots in the archway are more of those spiders!
On the other side of the short tunnel was a small room with a very rusted water pump and one of the coolest ceilings that I have ever seen in a tunnel!
After some research, I discovered that this was a water pump from the mid 1800s for an old stone reservoir that was right beside it. Water would be pumped from the reservoir to a tower beside train tracks. The tower would provide water to the passenger trains that needed it.
Such a neat and historic little find! and soon I will be posting shots of the tower, that still stands tall to this day!