Wednesday, February 1, 2012

colliery railways at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada

4-wheel coal cars, 1912
photo dated 1930

Glace Bay was a town based on coal mining and its population peaked at around 25,000 in the 1940s.  The mines had all ceased by 2001 and the population now is under 20,000.  More here

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