Claybank Brick Plant National Historic Site and Museum
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A Little Brick Plant in the Middle of Nowhere
Location: Claybank Brick Plant Clay Pits

 
Horse pulling dump car
1 of 19 		Dump Cars were used to haul sand and clay from the Pits south of the Brick Plant
2 of 19 		Narrow Gauge rail line
3 of 19 		Portable Narrow Gauge rail line into Pit #3 showing the Y junction and the Clay Dump Cars
4 of 19 		Fordson tractor hooked up to one of the Dump Cars
5 of 19 		The Narrow Gauge rail line was portable and could be laid into which ever Pit needed to be excavated
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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 19 		An abandoned 'truck' from one of the clay dump cars used on the Narrow Gauge rail line.
8 of 19 		Clark Construction (Moose Jaw) stripping overburden at the Tiger Lily Clay Pit, August 1972
9 of 19 		Clark Construction machinery stripping overburden at the Tiger Lily Pit.
10 of 19 		Clark Construction's dump truck depositing clay from the Blue Hills Pit on one of the stock piles.
11 of 19 		Terraced Clay Pit 4 shows open pit mining process at the base of the Dirt Hills south of the Plant.
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Clay Pit 4 showing the terraced effect of open pit mining
13 of 19 		Clay Pits and in the distance (l) the Brick Plant
14 of 19 		Remnants of the Narrow Gauge Rail line in the Massold Clay Canyons area
15 of 19 		School Children exploring Clay Pit 4
16 of 19 		Drilling out a hole for dynamite in order to blast loose Clay
17 of 19 		Pick and shovel was used to dig out the Clay in the early days
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