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"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley) 01/06/2019 at 18:40 • Filed to: None

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So, my wife is in residency for a week in Calgary. I am basically left to my own devices so have been driving around aimlessly. ( !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and on road today). I drove past this truck that’s been left to rot on some property in the boonies today and made an attempt to get to a derelict ship.

The Queen of Sidney (ex BC Ferry) and the SS San Mateo (ex Puget Sound ferry) lie in the Fraser river about a 45 minute drive from my house along a country road. Sounds like a good photo op right?

The Queen of Sidney was the first ever ship owned by BC Ferries and was retired in 2000. The SS San Mateo was a steam ship that was launched in 1922 and originally owned by South Pacific Golden Gate Ferries in San Francisco, CA . In 1941 she was sold to the Puget Sound Navigation Company and served until 1969.

!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! (link to US National Park Service).  She was moved up here after being listed and then, sadly, hulked.

I did some Google maps recon and it seemed I could just drive to the side of it. Unfortunately, when I arrived, it was clear that the road ended about 300m away and then it was private drive. I don’t trespass and the signs got pretty strongly worded as I went, so I turned around.

Credit: West Coast Ferries Forum

I also passed through a surprise Integrated Road Safety Unit checkpoint. No mention about the uncovered Baja’s (just didn’t put the covers on this morning). That was good.

Next trip? !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

vicali > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 01/06/2019 at 18:59

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I went on the barge at Expo!

Also there was a Canadian pickers episode with those boats.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > vicali 01/06/2019 at 19:00

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Nice!!!! Expo would have been cool. My parents went, then got married that same year. It was 6 years before my time sadly.

I didn’t know about the Pickers episode, that’s kinda neat.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 01/06/2019 at 19:01

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That truck looks like an old Austin A40, very rare!

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 01/06/2019 at 19:03

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It is! There were actually quite a few of them. They look saveable

wafflesnfalafel > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 01/06/2019 at 19:15

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T hat is cool, (I think I saw a video of some dude trying to explore some of those abandoned boats up there.) I know they are a problem from a pollution standpoint... but they still are super interesting. I got a pic of an abandoned dredge barge near Everett, WA a bit ago

vicali > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 01/06/2019 at 20:05

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I was 7 so I remember looking at everything from knee height.. I do remember the parachute drop, and the concrete  highway 86; look a Toy!