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For the term "abandoned farm".
Oshkosh 8x8 LVS/HEMTT

Vandervalk Collection

…They always let us know. Their elevator… Prairie Sentinels – Woodhouse Alberta – Vandervalk Farm. And this piece shot on their farm… Scenes of a Modern Farm – watching how it’s done. More old vehicles that run… The Springbanks Lights Fleet – firetrucks find a new job. The Big Red… (Search hits: 0 in title, 18 in body, 4 in comments.)

Abandoned Shoe

These Places Visited

…is one tough business, and the many abandoned farms scattered about the region, much as this one, are a reminder of that. Many tried, many failed. The odds are against you. Life sure was hard back then. Come the sweltering heat of summer, or that long cold winter, there was… (Search hits: 0 in title, 9 in body, 1 in comments.)

Cute Little Farm House

Few Words: The Cutest Little Farm House

…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, 8 in body, 0 in comments.)

Abandoned Farm Alberta

The Howe Place

…love getting out and are passionate. Skill level does not matter one little bit. Now, how easy was that? Some of our favourite abandoned farm houses… CPR Demonstration Farm. The Stone House. Laing House: friends and film. If you wish more information on what you’ve seen here, by all means… (Search hits: 0 in title, 9 in body, 0 in comments.)

Grain elevator interior

Searle Grain

…there are around two hundred and fifty in various states. Some are still used, some abandoned, some on display as museums. A good number are used by farmers or farm groups as grain storage, some where built and a few like this one, at some point moved directly to the… (Search hits: 0 in title, 18 in body, 0 in comments.)

Old Farm House Alberta

Where Nobody Lives

Presenting a most fantastic find, an old house and outbuildings, long abandoned, lonely and isolated, sitting there in a field with nothing else speaking of human habitation to be seen in any direction. And take in those stunning Alberta Badlands as a backdrop…a more picturesque setting could not be imagined…. (Search hits: 0 in title, 8 in body, 1 in comments.)

Abandoned Stone House

Little Stone House on the Prairie

It’s five words seen time and again in the comments section of our website and our social media accounts when we post about an abandoned farm or ranch house: “if these walls could talk”. And it most certainly applies here. Take in this little stone house, abandoned on the remote… (Search hits: 0 in title, 8 in body, 1 in comments.)

11th St SE Blackfoot Market

Blackfoot Farmer’s Market Today

…the Blackfoot Farmers Market, on 11st SE, that on our last visit stood complete, but abandoned soon after being shut down but today is nothing more than an empty lot. Sure there’s the trees that were there and lanes that marked each row of stalls and that red shale dating… (Search hits: 1 in title, 15 in body, 2 in comments.)

North American Railcar Operators Association

Riding the Rails in SW Saskatchewan – Part One

…beating. Shhh, don’t tell. Better it than ours. The next town down the line is Robsart (a ghost town), but it’s set back from the tracks and hard to see. Too bad, as it’s quite photogenic. See: A slice of Robsart. 31) Lots of old abandoned farms in the area…. (Search hits: 0 in title, 7 in body, 0 in comments.)

Leaky barn roof

This old barn

farmer’s old pickup, hood up, is being worked on in the driveway. All is well and life, while hard, is satisfying. Rules of exploration: show respect, don’t trespass and take only pictures. Fast forward to today and what was once was full of life is now abandoned and forgotten., There… (Search hits: 0 in title, 14 in body, 0 in comments.)

Alberta Forgotten Farm House

Valley Farm

…sun, to do it all over again. It’s a hard life out in the country and right here at the Valley Farm is where it played out. This farm dates back to the early 1900s with the property changing hands a few times in quick succession early on. The first… (Search hits: 1 in title, 6 in body, 0 in comments.)

Bridge Weight Restriction

GTC 2018 Day 2

…of light. 10) A sign flipped upside down. 11) If you follow various Abandoned Alberta type Facebook groups, you’ll see this old backroad farm house often. It’s photogenic and is easily shot from the fence line (it’s posted no trespassing) and so is popular with people who document buildings empty… (Search hits: 0 in title, 13 in body, 0 in comments.)

REO truck Industrial Works crane

Vintage vehicles found on a wonderful long weekend

…explore the area at our leisure. We headed down the old CNR Sheerness Subdivision (the Peavine line), long since abandoned, to see what sort of interesting things we could dig up. We found old farms and of course more vintage vehicles. First off, and not old but still very interesting,… (Search hits: 0 in title, 6 in body, 1 in comments.)

Bents SK ghost town

Bents

…Doering You’re one of the good ones Lila. Chris Doering You bring up a good point. Most people think if it looks abandoned, it does not belong to anyone and it’s open season. Most ghost towns/old farms/whatever are owned by someone. Chris Doering That people are interested in it is… (Search hits: 0 in title, 10 in body, 15 in comments.)

Sharpeshots.com photo

12 tips for shooting old vehicles – by Sharpeshots.com

…prairies one need not travel far to find suitable subjects. Nearly every farm has a back lot full of old vehicles – farmers never seem to throw anything away. Be sure to get permission though. Often the farmer can tell you the history of what you are photographing, further adding… (Search hits: 0 in title, 6 in body, 0 in comments.)

Vintage Toy Baby Carriage

The Family Homestead

In one of the photos below you’ll see Marilyn’s doll carriage from her childhood and the abandoned farm house documented in this post, was her home at the time. The old family homestead has been vacant for about sixty years but still holds many memories and here a cherished toy… (Search hits: 0 in title, 6 in body, 0 in comments.)

Gambrel Roof Farm House

Forgotten Farm

…know. Our absolute most favourite abandoned farm house… Peeling Paint and Lace Curtains. Short Subjects: reports that for any number of reasons are brief in nature. They might be updates to older articles, previews of posts planned or not yet published, brief snippets of things that don’t fit in anywhere… (Search hits: 1 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

24 hour video on site

Farmer Jones Carz

…we actually got to deal with the man himself. Farmer Jones in the flesh. Yes, Virginia, there is a Farmer Jones. Ed Pizinger. They had more or less reached a deal that involved the truck and some cash (of course) for one of the farmer’s junkers. I couldn’t believe that… (Search hits: 1 in title, 6 in body, 32 in comments.)

Skiff Alberta Ghost Town

Skiff Alberta ex-Parrish & Heimbecker

…a local farmer who uses it to store grain. Many grain elevators survive because frugal minded farmers scooped them up. Usually when done, they were often demolished. When we said nearly every town had a grain elevator, we weren’t kidding. Most towns had many. In fact Skiff had two more,… (Search hits: 0 in title, 11 in body, 2 in comments.)

Silver King tractor

Old farm tractors Pioneer Acres Museum Irricana

…tractors. Produced around the time of World War Two, this organization was folded into the Oliver Farm Machinery company near the end of that conflict. Production of the General was later transferred to a company called Avery since Oliver was already producing their own vast and extensive farm equipment line… (Search hits: 1 in title, 10 in body, 2 in comments.)

Garly AB grain elevator

Prairie Sentinels – Gartly Alberta – Wilson Farm

The grain elevator seen in this article is located at the Wilson Farm north of Drumheller Alberta, but once sat along the rail line in the town of Gartly, just to the north. Gartly is gone, the rail line is abandoned, but the elevator survives. Constructed in the late 1920s… (Search hits: 1 in title, 10 in body, 0 in comments.)

Connie BIGDoer.com

Few Words: A Catalogue Home?

The owner of the old family farm seen here, and it’s a beauty, has suspicions it might be a catalogue home. It certainly looks the part and being curious types, we volunteered to investigate. The Team scoured plan books and anything that could find on the subject, plus called on… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 2 in comments.)

Elevator distributor spout

Prairie Sentinels – Woodhouse Alberta – Vandervalk Farm

…still have been abandoned. Many however have been acquired by farmers, some left in the place where they were built and others moved to farms as this one was, and are used as grain storage facilities. While we’ve always known a little of what it takes to make a grain… (Search hits: 1 in title, 9 in body, 1 in comments.)

Gambrel Roof Farm House

The Bee House

Screaming down some back road, we come over a rise, and there off in the distance, we see an abandoned farm house. Looks pretty darn interesting. Looking over to Connie…”yeah?” “Oh yeah!” Stopping in a cloud of dust, we fire up the Internet (a vehicle hot spot is such a… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

Grain Elevator Viking AB

The Trains Here, Do They Fly

…this was shot… AGT – Alberta Government Telephones – gone for decades. The trains come often and fast. Diversion…an old stone building. They move…like really move. From the “Via” platform in Viking. In near total darkness…another flies through town. Scenes from an abandoned farm house… One day they just up… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

1940s Mercury One Ton

Old Jack’s Collection (1)

…not bad given how hard a farm truck could be worked. That year Saskatchewan celebrated its “Diamond Jubilee” (50th anniversary). Provincehood only goes back to 1905. Canada as a country is a relative youngster. 14) Same truck. God bless ’em, those cheap-ass farmers. If something breaks, fix it it with… (Search hits: 0 in title, 10 in body, 0 in comments.)

The Queenstown Garage

Queenstown Garage

…both cars and farm machinery were repaired here. And for a time there was new sales too – more old photos show shiny new tractors (IHC Farmalls) and their new owners posing for class photos out front. Not sure if cars were sold, but it’s sort of hinted at. All… (Search hits: 0 in title, 10 in body, 0 in comments.)

Miquelon Lake Trails

Miquelon Lake Park Big Loop

…oasis of forest and lake on the northern plains and there’s a fair-sized network of easy routes of many lengths to choose from. We’ll piece a number of them together and make a big loop of it. There’s pleasant rolling terrain, beaver ponds and an old farm house to take… (Search hits: 0 in title, 5 in body, 0 in comments.)

Raley AB elevator

Alberta’s oldest grain elevator

…before it was abandoned. In the 1920s, the CPR built a new branch south from Raley to Whiskey Gap that used some sections of the old roadbed. This line was abandoned again in the 1970s, and one of the last trains to travel it was a steam train used in… (Search hits: 0 in title, 9 in body, 3 in comments.)

Golden Prairie SK elevator

Prairie Sentinels – Golden Prairie Saskatchewan

…comment ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ In the meantime, the trains still run. And the reason for them is the grain elevator that is the subject of this report. It’s what’s called a producer loading site – meaning a farmer, farmers or cooperative firm loads grain directly into railway cars, bypassing… (Search hits: 0 in title, 9 in body, 1 in comments.)

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