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…can interact with, making for a more authentic well rounded experience. Channel your inner time traveller. Before the tour, a brief history. The town of Fort Steele dates back to the 1860s, making it one of the oldest communities in the entire province and for sure the oldest in the… (Search hits: 0 in title, 18 in body, 3 in comments.)

…tractors, trucks and the like and we shoot those items pique our interests. A nice old Federal Truck from the 1920s is seen, very cool! Vehicles from this maker were never that common, especially here in Canada. I’d sure like to know its history. Near it an old fire truck… (Search hits: 0 in title, 12 in body, 1 in comments.)

…Chris Doering, Johanna (Connie) Biggart & the BIGDoer.com Society. 🍁🎀 This old house has been abandoned for decades. There’s a number of collapsed log buildings on the property. Weather beaten and worn. Gear at the ready. The house is about a century old. So much character in this old wood…. (Search hits: 0 in title, 10 in body, 8 in comments.)

…not the choicest materiel, but it’ll work I guess. They also used, as what seemed to be the practice of the time, old rails and bit of metal a make-shift reinforcing rebar. Again, not pretty but it works. At its peak, in the late 1940s, over a dozen trucks were… (Search hits: 0 in title, 12 in body, 0 in comments.)

…storage to whomever. The two older grain cars are for sale. Some others were sold in the past for storage (to, possibly grain farmers? Trucks were removed / Cars mounted on used ties.). (The two remaining cars have multiple inlets for loading, so may be an inconvenience for loading?) The… (Search hits: 0 in title, 14 in body, 4 in comments.)

…moment. Fast forward to today, the streets are grassed over, the few buildings left in town open to the elements and dilapidated. A couple houses can be found. An old store still stands. And the old hall, it’s hanging on by a thread, the front facade having collapsed. A sorry… (Search hits: 0 in title, 17 in body, 7 in comments.)

…through all the holes in the roof, bounced in and around the structure giving a kaleidoscope or disco ball effect. Outside of one old piece of farm machinery the building is otherwise empty. Walking around, I find some old collapsed sheds near an old cement foundation. The latter is clearly… (Search hits: 1 in title, 17 in body, 0 in comments.)

…On one section an old dog print is seen, preserved for all time in the cement. Later, a huge tree blocks the path. Heading down to the railway, we take a close look at the old train station. This one dates from the 1920s and replaced an earlier structure here…. (Search hits: 0 in title, 18 in body, 0 in comments.)

…(one for the vet) in the old three or four digit local dialing format used way back when. An old fence being swallowed up by vegetation. Outside a couple things left behind, a water jug, old cheese grater, a garter clip that was used to hold up stockings (oh-la-la, shades… (Search hits: 0 in title, 17 in body, 3 in comments.)

…nothing to see here…move along. Carolside – the road into “town”. Carolside – old junk scattered about. Carolside – old planks hint that something once stood here. Carolside – old telegraph poles. Carolside – it’s hard to see but this earthen platform was likely where the train station was. The… (Search hits: 0 in title, 14 in body, 22 in comments.)

…in. At almost every site, old farm machinery could be seen, much of it abandoned and forgotten like the structures they kept company. Most old houses we find lack windows – perhaps they get broken by vandals or who knows and at almost every site there is at least one… (Search hits: 1 in title, 16 in body, 0 in comments.)

…in the province, old, young, perhaps some a little too young, seems to drink it religiously. A burger, a beer, exploring an old military base. It couldn’t be more perfect. This is BIGDoer Nirvana. We next check out the old power plant. It was for a time a fish hatchery… (Search hits: 0 in title, 16 in body, 4 in comments.)

…on this banner, as of April 2014, is gone. An old railway storage shed. Artwork by Jan Kruger, Feb 1990. One, of a series of paintings, seen on an old baggage car. Note how shiny the cars on left are – this side sees little sun. Compare this mural to… (Search hits: 0 in title, 13 in body, 3 in comments.)

…kilos of gold was extracted (exacted number guessed at). The largest nugget pulled from it’s rich gravels was over a kilo in weight. Amazing! Help the Society *Wild west style gunfights were not unheard of in the old days in gold producing regions of British Columbia but were rare in… (Search hits: 0 in title, 15 in body, 9 in comments.)

…as not only is there a very nice farmhouse, but also an old abandoned car as well in the deep grass – what looks to be an almost complete old abandoned car. This will make for some great photos! It’s so far in the field that nothing else could be… (Search hits: 1 in title, 15 in body, 2 in comments.)

…to be put to work like Jeep Trucks of old. GTC 2018 Day 1: old friends connected, old buildings photographed. On the road with Chris Doering & Connie Biggart (BIGDoer.com/Synd) 2) This one’s powered by an American Motors “327” V8 which was an option on Gladiator Pickups from 1965-1967. It… (Search hits: 0 in title, 13 in body, 1 in comments.)

…at the north end of town is the old Robsart Hospital, built in the 1910s and closed a couple decades later. I understand it was used for other purposes after. Today, it sits in a horse field. There were lots of old cars and trucks scattered about town, which of… (Search hits: 0 in title, 10 in body, 0 in comments.)