Heinz Trucking

My baby. She's a pure-breed mountain bike, but I won't be going up anything more than a 5% grade, today... I'm starting this ride a little west of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The goal is to reach the Philadelphia Museum of Art and return.

but then moves off into the woods. The trail generally parallels the Schuylkill River. In places the trail runs over old tow paths; in others it follows old railroad rights-of-way.

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do...

And we go from forest and rural, around a bend and into pure urban landscape.

I ignore overpasses and factories, but there's something sad about abandoned toys.

I'm kind of a "steam punk". I'm fascinated with old high-tech. None of these old factories are being used for what they were built for.

Ah, sweet nector of life. Well, the low-cal version, anyway.

The trail here runs right between a commuter rail line and a heavy freight rail line.

I just can't get over all the daisies.

The Shawmont train station is closed; there are places full of ruined steel and stone that look like they used to be factories, but are now completely overgrown.