This yellow machine, an outdoor display of the Snow Lake Mining Museum, is a muck car. It was used to carry 40 cubic feet of broken rock (“muck”) on 24-inch wide tracks from site to site at a mine.
Muck Car Monument (July 2017)
Source: Gordon GoldsboroughSite Coordinates (lat/long): N54.87423, W100.01796
denoted by symbol on the map above
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Snow Lake Mining Museum (Poplar Avenue, Snow Lake)
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 28 April 2020
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