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…a big water pipe. If you wish more information on what you’ve seen here, by all means contact us! Date of Adventure: August, 2019. Location(s): Clearwater County, AB. Article references and thanks: Glenbow Photo Archives/Glenbow Western Research Centre, Canadian National Railway Timetables, Alberta Energy Regulator Coal Mine Records. Please show… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 6 in comments.)

…What a thrill it would have been to crossing it on a train. Invite/Suggest/Collaborate On this adventure we hung around with good friends Jason and Rebecca Sailer of Lethbridge. A big thanks goes out to them. I think Jason was as thrilled to see the structure as I was. I’ve… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 2 in comments.)

…truth be told it’s as much about the comradery as it is the things seen. Still, we get to photograph some amazing stuff. Each time it’s a different base of operations and 2018 finds us in an area around Drumheller and Starland County. This is the “Ghost Town Convention”, Alberta… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 2 in comments.)

…was. Sometimes we’re a group, and at other points well separated and almost alone. So many emotions, so many questions never to be answered. It’s a tale of unbridled confidence and then despair, birth and death, a town that came and went in a generation or so. Toot-toot, comes another… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

…Robinson (via Facebook) David Suzukis dream home ..I for one don’t want to go back living like that ..lol! Gerry Pocha Bravo! Amazing and a big congrats, this is your best work ever. Angela Well done, Chris and Connie. I would love to be a guest shooter on one of… (Search hits: 0 in title, 6 in body, 1 in comments.)

…continue to enjoy more great content, all completely free by the way, do your part and keep “Off the Beaten Path – with Chris & Connie, aka BIGDoer.com” exciting, dynamic and seen by a wider audience. Please, comment…social share…mention…it all helps and only takes a moment. We need to know… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 1 in comments.)

…Coal and Kitsim Siding. Scroll down for photos and to comment. The coal at the Birnwell Mine was on average about fourteen metres down, so comparatively shallow. Here they had it easy and we suspect that gave them a competitive price advantage. The seam averaged about one and a half… (Search hits: 0 in title, 7 in body, 0 in comments.)

…kilometres. Built 1914. Syphon drops under the tracks. A great train spotting location. And another passes – we could do this all day. A brace reinforces a corrugated expansion joint. A section was removed so a road could be built. What a marvel of engineering. And it’s been historically recognized…. (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 4 in comments.)

…Still Sharon and Brian tried to keep it together, doing what they could, answering the issues, complying with the conditions, keeping it civil (nice people both) and shrugging it all off with a smile and a big “whatcha gonna do”. This author called the MD and was met with a… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

…It’s what we do but with abandoned farm houses these days, or now any threatened site for that matter, it’s just no longer possible. Social media, in particular, has made abandoned photography a big thing and with that comes many associated problems. Ask any farmer with an old homestead on… (Search hits: 1 in title, 2 in body, 0 in comments.)

…preserve the Hanna Roundhouse… Hanna Roundhouse Society (Facebook). Hanna Roundhouse Society (Website). We visited it before… Hanna Roundhouse and Turntable. Hanna Alberta roundhouse. Remains of another… Big Valley Alberta CNoR roundhouse. If you wish more information on what you’ve seen here, by all means contact us! Date: April, 2018. Location:… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

…an hour and feels more like an ocean voyage than a short little hop across the water. We rode the Osprey 2000 to get to Pilot Bay – it’s a free ride and an essential link in the highway’s system. It’s the only way across the middle portion of Kootenay… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

There are three very interesting bridges spanning the mighty Columbia River all a stone’s throw from downtown Trail British Columbia. One is over a hundred years old and not long for this world, it’s going soon, further upstream and under construction is a structure that will replace the former. A… (Search hits: 0 in title, 6 in body, 1 in comments.)