Conveyor of History
by Royce Howland
Title
Conveyor of History
Artist
Royce Howland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
The briquette processing building at the abandoned Brazeau Collieries mine operation processed crushed coal and tar into briquettes. These were run over 4 huge conveyors into a storage building, awaiting loading onto rail cars. Not a lot of folks now remember the days of coal furnaces in the home, or coal-fired locomotives. The conversion of the latter to diesel spelled the rapid end of a phase of the coal mining industry that included the shutdown of this mine. Coal was instrumental in opening the West, but this setting conveys for most a piece of history that we’re now removed from.
Copyright © Royce Howland. All rights reserved.
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June 29th, 2011
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