Mike Pearson's Adventures on a Pale Blue Dot

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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...

The first rusty machine to be spotted  on the Vancouver Island road trip. I spied the top of the logging arch as we zoomed south, towards Victoria. It took a while to find a safe spot to turn around. When I turned off the highway to go back, I found this ... http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/08/vancouver-island-field-logger.html When I was finished with the skidder, I doubled back to the property with the D-6 and Arch set-up. The owner was out working on his KW livestock hauler rig...and was only to happy to chat and allow me into his field to grab a few photos. The post that features a 1939 D-7 from the same trip is here..( also roadside ) http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/08/1939-d-7-cat.html Fancy wheels on the logging arch and hard rubber tires ( many decades before low profile tires and 22" rims were popular )

 From the Sea to Sky highway improvement project. The quest to upgrade the old Squamish highway in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler. I recently found new images on photo discs that I had squirreled away...haven't been seen in 4-5 years. The first installment on the South Interchange is here ... http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/02/drill-bits-and-dynamitepart-eighteenthe.html Installing formwork at the very complex interchange The active lanes were changed many times as the construction progressed. When work was done in one section, the lanes were pushed over to open up new ground. This done because the traffic had to keep flowing unimpeded while the multi-year job was under way Bowen Island in the background Top right is the road down to the Horseshoe Bat ferry terminal. Eagleridge overpass and the dirt road up into Cut 4 and the rest of the overland route ( the only brand new section of the S2S project ) ...