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Bingham Canyons New Dry Fork Shops.

Bingham Canyons New Dry Fork Shops buried now under tons of waste material.

Bingham and Garfield Railroad, Ghost Rail.

Once declared “one of the most marvelous little roads in the World.” This was high mountain railroading nothing like it in the world.

The whole purpose of the mines railroad was to get the ore to the smelter.

We go back in time and look at the beginning, then over time the many changes of the Garfield Smelter.

Old Shovel Disasters at Bingham Canyon Mine.

Not a very safe job when you are a shovel operator. Manefay slide April 10, 2013 was the largest nonvolcanic landslide in history.

The Secret is in the details. Prototype Bingham Canyon mine.

Details is one of the funniest things to do.

Ghost rail Copperton Low Line.

One time all Electric Copperton Low Line, company owned ore haulage line to the mills, one of the heaviest density railroads in the World at one time.

Arthur and Magna Mills for Bingham canyon mine.

Copper king mine has a mill area, but nothing like the two large mill for the Utah Copper (Kennecott) Bingham canyon mine, I will show them both.

Ghost Town, Frog Town.

Frog Town, just below Bingham this is where the railroad stopped.

Aerial Trams, Bingham had four.

Has anyone modeled an aerial tram? I would love to see a picture.


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