Comments on: Big Valley Roundhouse https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/ Offbeat Adventures - Lost & Forgotten Places - A Slice of History - Connections & Comparisons - The Beer Parlour Project🍺 Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:41:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32602 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 22:00:06 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32602 In reply to Jennifer Nash.

That is so kind of you to say, thanks!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32601 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:59:51 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32601 In reply to Connie Biggart.

Guilty as charged.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32600 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:59:39 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32600 In reply to Brian Craig.

I know!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32599 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:59:13 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32599 In reply to Shelley Hiebert.

Working on it as we speak! And we hope it’ll be awesome.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32598 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:58:50 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32598 In reply to Canadian Northern Society.

It’s our pleasure!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32597 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:58:38 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32597 In reply to Discovering ANTIQUES.

That was a great piece! But we’re biased! Thanks for the share.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32596 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:58:05 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32596 In reply to Blaine Campbell.

We’ll keep them coming…

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32595 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:57:38 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32595 In reply to Marsha Cochrane.

Thanks!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32594 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:57:29 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32594 In reply to Jackie Boros.

There’s a real Stonehenge vibe there and it was an inspiring subject to shoot.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32504 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 19:05:58 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32504 In reply to Darlene Gay Ruckaber.

Thank you!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32502 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 19:05:27 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32502 In reply to Marsha Cochrane.

Thanks for taking the time to look!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32501 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 19:04:05 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32501 In reply to Tracey Halladay.

Thanks!

]]> By: Jennifer Nash https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32587 Sun, 12 Jul 2020 08:28:28 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32587 Fascinating! All your photos always are!

]]> By: Connie Biggart https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32590 Sun, 12 Jul 2020 04:07:26 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32590 So that’s where you went after dinner?

]]> By: Brian Craig https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32591 Sun, 12 Jul 2020 00:37:51 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32591 Very cool!

]]> By: Shelley Hiebert https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32589 Sat, 11 Jul 2020 23:26:07 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32589 Can’t wait for your book!!

]]> By: Canadian Northern Society https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32585 Sat, 11 Jul 2020 23:19:47 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32585 Thanks for covering our piece of history.

]]> By: Discovering ANTIQUES https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32593 Sat, 11 Jul 2020 21:52:27 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32593 Shared: Another roundhouse story from our friends Off the Beaten Path with Chris & Connie. The Big Valley roundhouse was part of the same Canadian Northern rail line as the Hanna roundhouse featured in the spring 2020 issue of Discovering Antiques Magazine.

]]> By: Blaine Campbell https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32586 Sat, 11 Jul 2020 19:04:11 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32586 I love these old photos

]]> By: Marsha Cochrane https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32588 Sat, 11 Jul 2020 15:12:48 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32588 Great shots!

]]> By: Jackie Boros https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32592 Sat, 11 Jul 2020 11:50:43 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32592 Strong walls, just waiting for you to take an interesting photo.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32363 Fri, 10 Jul 2020 16:17:41 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32363 In reply to Bob Smith.

Thank you for sharing this. Prairie water is worst! When we rode in the locomotive one trip the engineer made mention of something similar in regards to Caprona. I can only imagine the trouble caused by foaming water and scale.

]]> By: Darlene Gay Ruckaber https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32483 Fri, 10 Jul 2020 04:45:42 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32483 Beautiful photos!

]]> By: Bob Smith https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32361 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 22:17:11 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32361 Like so many places across the prairies, Big Valley has terrible alkali water, and locomotives using this had to be washed out far more frequently, perhaps even after ever round trip. Such high mineral content will also cause foaming in the boiler, causing liquid water to be thrown up into the throttle valve and make its way to the cylinders, potentially causing severe damage (liquids don’t compress like gasses).

A few miles north of Big Valley, at Caprona, the railway drilled a deeper well to tap a far better water source. I’ve read that crews would try to take as little water as possible right in Big Valley, and fill up at Caprona instead.

]]> By: Marsha Cochrane https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32484 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 18:46:14 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32484 Great photos!

]]> By: Tracey Halladay https://www.bigdoer.com/42604/exploring-history/big-valley-roundhouse/#comment-32482 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 11:35:14 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=42604#comment-32482 Beautiful!

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