I was told there was maybe an old train sitting in the lake, I use google earth to research my area before I go there, when I was looking on google earth I noticed something near the shore, it did not look like it belonged, so in a boat I went. Upon arriving at Nanton Lake BC I put my canoe in the lake and paddled over, what I saw amazed me, I have never seen anything like this, but it was late and I had to leave, this was a quick visit. Returning another day more in the morning, I returned, this time armed with a camera, and a underwater camera, so time for swim.
The photos showed me something even to this day is a puzzle, I am sure its a log loader/unloader, I can see the pulley, the gears, and the broken mast, but what is the puzzle is the 2 sets of sidebyside wheels. This would mean a double track, there was no indications of a double track, and double tracks are extremely difficult to build, also the shear size of this ancient piece of machinery was amazing, and so far, no one has been able to truly identify what this really was used for.
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- Above water view of the unknown Relic
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- Additional Chain
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- Additional Chain to unknown covered area
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- Anchor Ready Rod support
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- Andy McLeod Looking into the Underwater Cam Monitor
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- Another Jumble of Debris
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- Another Piece of Railroad track
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- Another Section on the Suspected Crane Arm or Piling Driver
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- Another View of Cable and Chain
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- Another View of chain area
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- Another view of pilings
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- Both sets of lower wheels
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- Both sets of Railroad wheels
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- Center Pulley with cable
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- Centre Beam of A Frame
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- Chain
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- Chain for unknown part
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- Clear view of wheels
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- Close up of wheels
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- Covered Debris
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- Debris Lower Section
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- End of the Suspected Piling Driver or Crane Arm
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- Gear or Pulley system
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- A above water shot from a distance
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- A above water shot of the unknown item
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- Joint of two wheels side by side
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- Jumble of Debris
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- Lower Set of wheels
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- More Chain
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- More Chain again
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- More Debris 20 ft away
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- Part of Debris 1
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- Piece of RailRoad Track
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- Piling of RailRoad Trestle
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- Piling still has cross on it
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- Pilings seen going across
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- Pilings under the water
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- Pilings with cross still attached
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- Platform
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- Platform Debris
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- Remants from the forest fire
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- RobTremblay Looking into the Laptop for recording
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- Secondary Angle of Debris
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- Secondary Angle of end of Suspected Piling Driver or Crane Arm
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- Secondary View 5 ft down
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- Secondary View Left Side
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- Secondary view of chain
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- secondary view of wheels
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- Suspected Arm for Piling Driver or Crane Arm
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- Suspected Crane Arm or Piling Driver
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- Suspected Crane Arm or Piling Driver 2
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- Suspected Platform
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- Suspected Platform 2
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- The Joining of the Double set of wheels
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- The Left Wheel on the Unknown Relic
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- The Right Wheel on the unknown Relic
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- Andy McLeod and The Underwater cam monitor
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- The Wheels on the unknown relic
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- Unknown Debris Again
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- Unknown Gearing
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- Unknown Item near Debris
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- Unknown Item on Nanton Lake
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- Unknown Item viewable beside the tresle
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- Unknown Metal Debris
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- Unknown Part of the Unknown relic
After uploading and developing the photo’s from a previous trip, I returned with a underwater video camera, and I got this amazing footage.
Another Underwater Video Footage
