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.
Abandoned mine train in Canada's Bankhead ghost town
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einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de · 18 pts · 2y
fun fact: thats a lokomotive powered by airpressure, they where used to avoid fire in mines
jam12705@lemmy.nexus · 9 pts · 2y
That's really neat, I never knew they came in a fireless version. Fireless Locomotive
roguetrick@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y