Claybank Brick Plant National Historic Site and Museum
Claybank, Saskatchewan
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A Little Brick Plant in the Middle of Nowhere
Hot Spot: Narrow gauge rail line

 
Horse pulling dump car
1 of 18 		Three men and the Narrow Gauge rail line at the mine entrance in the Dirt Hills.
2 of 18 		Dump Cars were used to haul sand and clay from the Pits south of the Brick Plant
3 of 18 		Narrow Gauge rail line
4 of 18 		Portable Narrow Gauge rail line into Pit #3 showing the Y junction and the Clay Dump Cars
5 of 18 		Fordson tractor hooked up to one of the Dump Cars
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The Narrow Gauge rail line was portable and could be laid into which ever Pit needed to be excavated
7 of 18 		The Narrow Gauge rail line was portable and could be laid into which ever pit needed to be excavated
8 of 18 		The Blue Hills Pit, located 16km northwest of the Brick Plant.
9 of 18 		Blue Hills Pit's loading docks.
10 of 18 		View of the Plant from the south after completion of the first phase of construction in 1914
11 of 18 		View of the Brick Plant from the southwest in 1914
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Deep snow in the winter of 1935 almost covered the Narrow Gauge rail line Tressel Bridge
13 of 18 		Paul Binning standing on the Narrow Gauge Rail Line Tressel Bridge.
14 of 18 		Inside the Clay Storage Shed, 1994.
15 of 18 		Clay Storage Shed, Fuel oil storage tank and the Cooling Cistern, 1935
16 of 18 		Remnants of the Narrow Gauge Rail line in the Massold Clay Canyons area
17 of 18 		View of the Plant from the southwest
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