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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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[–] einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

fun fact: thats a lokomotive powered by airpressure, they where used to avoid fire in mines

[–] jam12705@lemmy.nexus 9 points 1 year ago

That's really neat, I never knew they came in a fireless version. Fireless Locomotive

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I 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.

[–] taanegl@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Anybody check the inside for the bones of indigenous children?