Atlas Mine Tipple. Canadian Flag shows the mine entrance. Tours take you throughout the Tipple, conveyor shafts, and out buildings
Another view of the Tipple. Coal is sorted into various sizes,suitable for various purposes.
Shower room and change house
Electric Engine
Part of the machinery graveyard. It was considered bad luck to take retired equipment off site.
Dynamite Shack
View from the top of the Tipple
Monuments to a bye-gone era
Trestle once used by the mining operation.
Taking a lunch break
Evaluating the photographer
Reading
Caught reading
Frilly Collar - Happy the working day is over.
Master pick wielder
Coal car wheels
Coal car wheels in black and white - as if you couldn't tell.
Up close and personal
Sleeps seven. Built by a couple of miners who didn't want to sleep in a canvas tent all winter. A year later, the family of one of the miners also moved in.
Feeding eight people in luxury accomodation
Back end of the Miner's shack. The miners had to build their own accommodations if they wanted something more than the canvas tent provided by the company. Most materials were stolen in the dead of night. You can see the various layers of construction.
Looks homey.
Tour guide. Very knowledgeable with lots of mine stories.
Working coal train engine. This engine powered the train tours.
The battery compartment of the train engines
Life of leisure.
Wanna be like daddy!
Bowing before the master...
Boxcar loader
What do you think you're doing? I did NOT give you a signed release.
Conveyor from up the hillside to the first of the filter/shakers
Conveyor to the top of the Tipple for further sorting.
Ready for loading.
Clara receives a flower of appreciation from the tour guide for the handful of stones given.
Boxcar wheels
Making his way in the world on the backs of others...
