Only the staircase remains. Once leading to the Bankhead church on a hill across the highway from Banff, Alberta, these weathered stone steps rise majestically and end in emptiness—no altar, no roof, just open sky to the heavens. Locals call it the Stairway to Heaven, but for many miners and their families displaced by the coal town’s collapse in 1922, it became a stairway to nowhere. In a place where workers once gathered to pray for employment, food, and a future, the stairs now serve as a stark memorial to the limits of hoping that jobs wouldn’t be displaced by technological change. Echoing the story of Those Uprooted, this image reflects more than architectural decay. It is a symbol of economic obsolescence, spiritual persistence, and the human cost of energy transition—from coal-fired steam engines to oil. Stairway to Hell teaches us that business failure due to changing energy paradigms is not just about decaying financial statements, but a fracture in the lives of communities left behind.