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In early August, Connie and I were out exploring a lonely section of Alberta, the dry belt region southeast of Hanna. It’s a forgotten and empty place with few inhabitants, ghost towns and seemingly more abandoned farms then those that are lived in. In other words, it’s the perfect playground… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

…up. The bridge crosses Kneehills Creek and right behind it is an abandoned CPR branchline. Climbing underneath, I have this interesting view. On top, here we’re looking south. The bridge is a combination deck truss and deck plate design. The long abandoned CPR Langdon Subdivision heads off in the east…. (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Abandoned in the 1950s, many old and decrepit coal cars can be seen scattered about the forgotten Commander Mine site (earlier the Stirling Mine) near Nacmine Alberta. Exposed to the elements, rot and rust are slowly taking over. Tossed aside when the mine closed, they fittingly sit atop the old… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Setting the time machine back to August 1989, you’ll find me in Princeton BC looking at the remains of the old rail line that passed through here. Abandoned only months before my visit, all of the track remained in place as though waiting for a train to come. And the… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

…historical place and I’ll be sure and try. The abandoned rail line into town was once the Canadian National Brazeau branch. Built by predecessor company Canadian Northern, the rails arrived here in early 1914, The line was built to tap the coal mines in the area and there was one… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

The area just southeast of Calgary has a remarkable number of grain elevators still standing and this makes it an natural attractant to us history explorers. We’ll visit a number of towns in the region, some abandoned and forgotten, some alive with small populations, all very interesting. For this trip… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

…is abandoned but the tracks remains in place. Two of Mossleigh’s three elevators. The small building in front is the coal shed. These tracks are along the abandoned CPR Lomond Subdivision branch. The very overgrown elevator siding. Looking north east, the tracks remain in place for a few more kilometres…. (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

…in 1974-75, train service was rare along this section and not long after his last trip the line was abandoned. Don’t forget to LIKE or SHARE this post. Further up the line, west of Finnegan, is the very photogenic ghost town of Dorothy Alberta. There is an abandoned grain elevator… (Search hits: 0 in title, 4 in body, 0 in comments.)

Pretty much all that’s left in Sharples Alberta is an old grain elevator. The location here is a wide shallow valley, scenic, sort of unprairie-like and home to a meandering creek – a nice nice setting! The building is abandoned and while rough-looking and weather worn it has a certain… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 1 in comments.)

…way to Medicine Hat, and parts of it were constructed but never finished. This line was abandoned by the late 1970s and by then most of the towns were either gone completely or just a shells of their former self. Today, the rail line can easily be followed on Google… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 1 in comments.)

…an Orthodox Church Monastery abandoned half a century ago. Researched, written and photographed by Chris Doering and Connie Biggart (BIGDoer.com) The Monastery was founded in the early 1950s as the Hermitage, or Skete, of Prophet (sometimes Saint) Elias. The handful of members residing here were of Ukrainian background and were… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 1 in comments.)

…only way in. This line, unlike other abandoned ones in the area, has not been tuned into a rail trail. To see some other train archaeology themed reports we’ve posted, go here… Canadian Pacific Railway octagonal water tower. Abandoned locomotive CPR’s BIG Hill – 1992. Canadian National Railways Nordegg –… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 1 in comments.)

Perhaps a year or so back Team BIGDoer was approached by Rueben Tschetter, a well respected film producer and videographer with Cache Productions, Red Deer Alberta. Seems he’d been watching some of what we were up to – exploring abandoned places and ghost towns and chronicling the experience – and… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

…church. The first person buried here was in 1907, the latest 2015. It’s still in use. While we explored, a fellow showed up, as I guess he does regularly, to pay respects to his deceased wife. He talked briefly and pointed out the abandoned school, seen just down the hill,… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

Today’s subject takes us back to the paranoia-fueled days of the Cold War, a long abandoned military radar dome installation in Western Saskatchewan. Its purpose was scouring the skies for approaching enemy aircraft and missiles and was one of a large network of similar facilities, operated jointly by the Canadian… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

Abandoned, and looking every bit the part, pressure is growing to save the historic wooden road/rail bridge that spans the Red Deer River at East Coulee Alberta. Dating from the 1930s and last used just over three decades ago, it was built by the railway to access nearby coal mines,… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

There is not much left in the ghost town of Neidpath Saskatchewan, just a couple empty houses, some crumbling foundations, a tiny church, and off in the distance, two old grain elevators. As abandoned and forgotten places go, it’s not terribly big nor all that showy, but for reasons neither… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

Neidpath is a tiny ghost town on the vast Saskatchewan prairies and is home to a pair of fine looking grain elevators that are the subject of this report. Abandoned for decades, these old structures have seen better days, but it’s that very thing, that they are so run down… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

Picture Butte, a small town located just north of Lethbridge, is home to one traditional wooden grain elevator, which is today’s subject. This massive structure, long since closed down by it’s original owner, but today being used by a local farmer to store grain, sits alongside an abandoned rail line…. (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

…creek and railway, but was abandoned when the road was realigned. Somewhere between eighty and ninety of this style bridge were constructed in Saskatchewan in the 1920s and 30s, and about half still remain. Some still carry traffic, a few have been converted to pedestrian use, while others, like this… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

It’s May 2014. Connie and myself are on whirlwind back road tour of southwest Saskatchewan. Our goal this trip was to capture all things old and abandoned. We visited ghost towns, forgotten farms, photographed old bridges, explored old rail lines. And then there were the grain elevators. There are still… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

Located close to the historic site for which its named, the Buffalo Jump Arts and Crafts store not far from Gleichen is abandoned and forgotten and close to collapse. Empty and open to the elements, it’s only a matter of time before it’s gone. This structure is located along the… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

…by either railway. Using content On my second visit to the elevators a number of years later the CPR tracks were either abandoned or soon to be abandoned. I did not make notes sadly. It’s possible the elevators were still in business at this point and if the CPR had… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

…524 abandoned road bridge. Abandoned CPR Bow River bridge. A number of movies were filmed in High River and to see some locations we’ve photographed, check out these links… Superman 3 then and now – Smallville. Silver Streak movie then and now – paper burning scene. High River has a… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)

…It’s abandoned, empty and vandalized, but at least it survives. It was the 1990s since we last visited here, and then only briefly at that, although I always wanted to return. Fast forward to August 2013 and finding ourselves in the area, we made sure to set aside the time… (Search hits: 0 in title, 3 in body, 0 in comments.)