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While many come to the beginning of this trail before an OHV adventure to Bruin Point, this trail also brings you up close to pieces of our mining history.
While this system may look like the ski-lifts you see elsewhere in Utah, this is actually a mine tram. The mine tram was a crucial piece that came into the mining industry. As mines were tucked higher up in the hills, the steep incline made transporting loads more difficult via wagon making transporting costs exorbitant.
But with the introduction of mining trams, transportation costs decreased from 3 dollars a ton to nearly 7 cents per ton. Some mine trams could even handle 10 tons of material per hour!
Through most of the Carbon Corridor you will see coal mining history, but the abandoned equipment you see around you here was used for rock asphalt. Mining occurred here sporadically from 1898 to 1931, and the team relied heavily on the 3.5 miles of gravity powered tramway you see!
