Years and years ago in Halsam Lake Powell River, there was once upon a time a railroad, this railroad once went as far as Duck and Mud Lakes, and to LangBay, Myrtle Point, and even Grief Point. Later in the years, this railway supplied timber to the Irly Bird Lumber mill, there were many different companies over the years that travelled along these lines, and even today the old tresle that spanned the waterways can be seen. If you follow them, you will see the old rail lines and if you look hard enough you will find old artifacts like what I have pictured here can be found.
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- Another Cast Iron Cylinder
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- Behind old small building
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- Bolt Found at foot of Tresle on Land
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- Crushed Metal Cylinder
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- Entire Span of Tresle at Haslam Lake
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- Front of Old Building
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- Inside of Old Building
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- Old cast iron cylinder
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- Old Survey Can and Cap Cast Iron
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- Old Truck Grill Cover
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- Part of Shoreline Tresle
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- Size of Bolt
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- Spring Lake Mainline Tresle from Haslam Lake
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- Unknown Metal Item
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- Wide end of Spring Lake Mainline
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- More Tresle Spring Lake Connetion other side of Island
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- Tresle showing signs of fire, unsure of when this area had a forest fire
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- Closer view of Tresle again
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- Remains of small building, more than likely an outhouse on island
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- Remains of unknown building
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- Old Railway Line, now overgrown but was once a railway
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- View of Haslam Lake tresle from Island
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- Where Tresle meets land, last tresle supports still there
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- Tresle Supports almost overgrown
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- Cable Hook, almost totally intact, measured to 300 feet to other side of island
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- Middle of Cable on island
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- Old Cable Wheel sitting in the lake
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- Another old cable wheel
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- View of Tresle from Haslam Lake Island Side
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- Another view of tresle from water
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- Close up view of tresle left side near island
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- In the middle where the tresle splits into two directions, Mill and Myrtle Creek connectors
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- Tresle going into the middle of the lake, directly across from old mill site at Haslam Lake
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- To Shore View of Tresle
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- Tresle under the water, this is why people loose props sometimes, 200 ft from shore
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- Tresle under the water, 4 pilings wide and about 20 ft in depth
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- As Tresle leaves the land heading out into nowhere, a dumping tresle I assume
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- Tresle runs along shoreline for a ways
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- As the tresle runs it nears shore
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- Last Tresle Post prior to shore
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- Remain of Boat, 18 to 20 ft, green paint and red paint, on its side oddly
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- I found this boat at the enterance to the Slue at Haslam Lake, oddly enough on its side
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- This boat, underwater for at least 30 to 40 years I would think due to its conditions, hardly a old time relic but a relic just the same
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- Another Boat in the Slue, small digny, been there a long time
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- Small Digny is the Slue at Haslam Lake in 8 feet of water
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- Railroad Spike found along the Mainland portion of the Haslam Lake Railroad, 6 inches in the ground
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- Another Railroad spike found about 300 ft down the Mainland portion of the Haslam Lake Railroad
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- Third Railroad Spike, 20 feet away from the second on, 9 inches down
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- Looking south down the Haslam Lake Railroad, now abandon since 1928 and used it seems as a trail
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- A old Locomotor Wrench, I found this in 14 inches of ground using a metal detector, a good find
