Construction of Canada’s first Elevated Park on the 1929 Michigan Central Railroad Bridge located at St. Thomas’ western edge is slated to begin next month. On-Track, the organization which has taken on this project has just announced that when the park opens in late August it will feature two major metal sculptures created by artist and blacksmith Scott McKay. The largest, entitled “Fear Not the Wind” will tower some 20 feet above the very centre of the park. The second, “Mixed Signals” will be some fifteen feet high and appear at the King Street approach to the bridge.
 
Though the rail tracks were removed long ago, the bridge remains an iconic symbol of local heritage, massive strength, and energy – at one time 50 trains thundered across the span each day. The coming together of McKay’s sculpture and the park’s design would seem to be a match “forged in heaven”.