Abandoned mine train in Canada's Bankhead ghost town

Bankhead was an old mining town on the Cascade Mountain (Alberta, Canada).

The area's now in Banff National Park and the town is a tourist attraction, so it's not quite as abandoned as some of the places posted here.

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fun fact: thats a lokomotive powered by airpressure, they where used to avoid fire in mines
- That's really neat, I never knew they came in a fireless version. Fireless Locomotive
- I was imagining a boiler explosion in a mine with a tank like that. Usually they just used minecarts attached to a steam donkey on the surface.