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Coaldust

Coaldust

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Big trucks is what I know. HAZMAT is what I tow.
One Sixty Nine, (69, cause this old lady still likes to party). Has been sitting outside cold soaking for 48 hours. Because, I filled the shop full of ISO tanks. Now, She won’t crank :(.

And, we have wenching to do. Er’ winching and gin poles and stuff. Well, somebody has to winch. I still got tanks to test.

Let’s install fresh, warm batteries and see what happens. You can’t stop a Western Star.

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Baxsie

Baxsie

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Stibnite, ID. (map link) Antimony mine ~ WWII. This was the company gas station that my grandpa and grandma ran. Grandma had a beauty shop upstairs, grandpa did the gas station and I think a repair bay.

Probably a couple of my aunts posing. That Chevy looks brand new.

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Same gas station to the left, town / company recreation hall on the right:

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From the same roll of film, so probably also in that area and era of the Idaho backcountry. Looks like maybe a camping or hunting trip?

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Not sure about this one. Any of the men could easily be grandpa:

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Not too surprising that the mine ended up as a superfund site: https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=1000236

When we were kids, we would tromp around the ruins of the town, taking home crusher balls and slipping on the piles of x-ray films at the hospital.

I remember a hill on one side of the valley that was totally dead - looked like a fire had recently gone up it. This would have been in the 70's, so some 30 years after the WWII mine had closed. My mom (who grew up there as a kid during the war) said that the smoke from the smelter would blow up that mountain and that is what killed all the trees. That is some nasty smoke!

The entire town got scrubbed in later, modern iterations of the mine.
 
Baxsie

Baxsie

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Here are some other Stibnite truck / equipment images pulled from the modern owner's site:

Snowing in the mountains? Ya, long sleeve t-shirt should be fine

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