The Queen of Sidney is an all-time favorite of mine and the engine room specifically was one of the most memorable exploring experiences of my life. The feeling of climbing atop and standing between the refrigerator sized cylinder heads of the largest engine I've ever seen in my life was absolutely surreal. The room is pitch black, chains hanging from the ceiling, humid with oil residue, the stairs, the walls, every surface coated with reddish brown slime, shiny and slick, and as the water level of the Fraser River rises and falls the engine room floods with oily, contaminated water up to your knees.
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Classic location. So much history, controversy, drama, character, decay.
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