The Wabco 3200 Mining Truck at Britannia Mine Site
Aerial photo that I took from a helicopter, 14 years after visiting the site with my dad This was taken in 2006/07...the site has been massively improved since then The original idea was to just post a few old photos from the early 90's, when my dad and I stopped in at the Britannia mine site to look at the huge mining truck that had just been re-assembled there. The truck used to be one of the workhorses of the Highland Valley Copper operation at Logan Lake. At the end of it's service life, it was donated to the Britannia mine site museum. It had to be taken apart and shipped in pieces from BC's interior to the coast at Howe Sound. The truck is a 1974 Wabco 3200B, and carried a record for the era...235 ton payload. There is a lot of information online about these trucks and their history and evolution. A couple of interesting points.. Wabco...is short for "Westinghouse Air Brake Company" I read an online comment that mentioned that the Logan Lake 3...