The briquette processing building at the abandoned Brazeau Collieries mine operation processed crushed coal and tar into briquettes. These were run over 4 huge conveyors into a storage building, awaiting loading onto rail cars. The conversion of coal-fired locomotives to diesel spelled the rapid end of a phase of the coal mining industry that included the shutdown of this mine. Coal was key in opening the West, but this setting conveys, for most, only a piece of history that we’re now removed from.