Abandoned mine train in Canada's Bankhead ghost town
Abandoned mine train in Canada's Bankhead ghost town
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Bankhead was an old mining town on the Cascade Mountain (Alberta, Canada).
The area's now in Banff National Park and the town is a tourist attraction, so it's not quite as abandoned as some of the places posted here.
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fun fact: thats a lokomotive powered by airpressure, they where used to avoid fire in mines
18 0 ReplyThat's really neat, I never knew they came in a fireless version. Fireless Locomotive
9 0 ReplyI was imagining a boiler explosion in a mine with a tank like that. Usually they just used minecarts attached to a steam donkey on the surface.
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