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Ray Dunakin Posted - 03/13/2012 : 5:12:27 PM
While doing an image search for old buildings, I found some pics and info about a place called Bingham Canyon. The town that once existed there is long gone, the entire area having been excavated as the mine expanded. But looks like it would have been a cool prototype for modeling. The town was built in a canyon so narrow, there was only one street, with buildings squeezed in on each side of it. There were lots of railroad tracks and bridges too.

Here are a few pics. Unfortunately I haven't found many good pics taken at street level..

http://www.hmdb.org/PhotoFullSize.asp?PhotoID=124583

http://www.hmdb.org/PhotoFullSize.asp?PhotoID=124587

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kB7QQauTHBk/TmELANlim5I/AAAAAAAAYnU/FnokHGI6rKo/s1600/Top-1.jpg
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Ray Dunakin Posted - 03/14/2012 : 10:44:12 PM
I spent a few hours going through some of the 400+ pics last night and saw that they had some serious disasters as a result of the steep and narrow space. A boulder crashing through a house, an avalanche that took out a good size chunk of town, and a runaway train (powered by a large Shay) that jumped the tracks, tumbled down the slope and crashed through numerous structures. Here's an account of that incident, followed by a few pics:

http://utahrails.net/drgw/rg-cuprum-accident.php

http://content.lib.utah.edu/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=/USHS_Class&CISOPTR=23411&DMSCALE=92.59259&DMWIDTH=700&DMHEIGHT=700&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&REC=16&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0

http://content.lib.utah.edu/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=/USHS_Class&CISOPTR=23419&DMSCALE=92.59259&DMWIDTH=700&DMHEIGHT=700&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&REC=6&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0

http://content.lib.utah.edu/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=/USHS_Class&CISOPTR=23409&DMSCALE=92.59259&DMWIDTH=700&DMHEIGHT=700&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&REC=14&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0

What surprises me is that I haven't found any reference yet to flashfloods. I would have expected that to be a major issue in that narrow canyon.
deemery Posted - 03/14/2012 : 2:16:40 PM
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Originally posted by Tabooma County Rwy

Ray, those two photos in your first post - wow! Sure gives a modeler a justification to squeeze a town in a narrow space. The old "there is a prototype for everything" saying.

I couldn't help but wonder about those houses/buildings built up against the hillsides - I'd be ever fearful of a landslide during heavy rainy periods...

Al Carter
Washouts were a problem in a lot of mining towns, for that very reason!

dave
Tabooma County Rwy Posted - 03/14/2012 : 1:08:09 PM
Ray, those two photos in your first post - wow! Sure gives a modeler a justification to squeeze a town in a narrow space. The old "there is a prototype for everything" saying.

I couldn't help but wonder about those houses/buildings built up against the hillsides - I'd be ever fearful of a landslide during heavy rainy periods...

Al Carter
Ray Dunakin Posted - 03/13/2012 : 11:58:56 PM
Here's a site with LOTS more photos of Bingham Canyon, including some street level shots. Thanks go to Dennis McCarthy for pointing me to it...

http://history.utah.gov/research_and_collections/photos/index.html

Just enter "bingham canyon" into the search field.

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