Check our most recent mystery photo.

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For those who may not know, we have a category for photos that are missing some to all of the details of what they are about and who took them and why.
Click here to see: http://www.dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?tit ... :Mysteries

We have a recent John A. MacIntosh photo from Chuck Conway's collection that we'd love to get resolved sooner than later and so I'm asking that everyone take a look and see if you can spot where this photo was taken. We suspect that it was taken between Kentville and Middleton but who knows? I certainly don't recognize this place from the railway track angle.
Click here to see this one: http://www.dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?tit ... 1975_a.jpg

[Ric]

That is the west end of Berwick, looking east. First street crossing in the foreground is Foster Street.

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Aha. Checks out quite nicely against the aerial photos we have. I can see that apple warehouse with the white trim on the left centre of the photo so the station is gone in this photo already? Wasn't the station a military surplus store in those days or was that one of the old warehouses next to it?

I already took it out of the mysteries section and put it in the Berwick section.

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OK. Try this one. I can see in the distance a speeder and beyond that, level crossing light.

[Ric]

Aha. Checks out quite nicely against the aerial photos we have. I can see that apple warehouse with the white trim on the left centre of the photo so the station is gone in this photo already?

I'm not sure when the original station left but it could just be hidden behind the building on the left (check the ins map on the Wiki) . Either the old or the last station would be hidden by the brick building. The warehouse with the white trim in the distance is the Pleasant Valley warehouse. There is another further along similar in design. I will have to dig out a couple of the old photos I have and upload them

[Ric]

OK. Try this one. I can see in the distance a speeder and beyond that, level crossing light.

We had this discussion on Atlantic Rails a while back with no firm result. I can tell you it is not Aylesford as there are some old RR buildings that still exist near the roadbed that are not in that photo. Was it taken the same day as the Berwick photo, it seems to be the same manner? Both days seem windy about the same lighting (One is over exposed, one under). If we could identify the white building on the left that would be a good start. and the shed on the right, seems to be in the middle of nowhere. That would be odd so I wonder if the station is behind the photographer?

[Ric]

I've been thinking. It is not Waterville, Berwick or Aylesford, too flat for Cambridge, not Coldbrook. Track layout and road wise, best I saw between Middleton and Wolfville was Ruggles Road just about 4000ft east of the Middleton 101 exit.

Ric

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RE: Berwick.

No.. I don't think it's possible for it to be hidden behind if you look at the pre-1938 photo of the Berwick yard. Although the brick warehouse in the forground of the 1975 photo has yet to appear, you can see how the station is closer to the main line track before 1938 than the warehouse behind it that we can see clearly in 1975.

http://www.dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?tit ... ilyard.JPG

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You said this was discussed on Atlantic rails? Someone uploaded the photo there? Because eBay is now hiding even bid winners, if you know who is the owner of this photo I'd appreciate knowing so I can properly credit the photo.

Very straight track in the forground, a 15 degree curve to the right and then very straight again into the distance. A single siding with a speeder on it that appears to curve off to the right almost at 90 degrees in the background and a controller level crossing. Man I wish we had some maps. Has anyone got topographical maps of the valley? I've got a few and I'm going to dig them out and get scanning. If anyone else has some, let's do this.

[Ric]

RE: Berwick.

No.. I don't think it's possible for it to be hidden behind if you look at the pre-1938 photo of the Berwick yard.

But there was another one used, VIA shed I'll call it for lack of a better term, that may have been in place and it may have been set back a bit. I have never known any other than the two stations here. Plus you are quite far down the tracks where the photo was taken.

You said this was discussed on Atlantic rails? Someone uploaded the photo there? Because eBay is now hiding even bid winners, if you know who is the owner of this photo I'd appreciate knowing so I can properly credit the photo.

No, just when the auction was up, someone linked it wondering if we knew the place because it was not Aylesford as it was listed. The curature is right but the lack of the buildings is what was against it as Aylesford

Man I wish we had some maps. Has anyone got topographical maps of the valley? I've got a few and I'm going to dig them out and get scanning. If anyone else has some, let's do this.

I used the Google Maps at about 200 ft elevation and all but the one I mentioned was too straight, not enough buildings or too many buildings...at least in my eyes.

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The topo maps I have are ones I bought back in the 70's of the valley so they'd show the correct track configuration and buildings as seen in the photo from the same time frame.

[Dan Conlin]

Just a guess, but I wonder if it is Wilmot, just east of Middleton.

Dan Conlin

[Chuck Conway]

Ric and list,

Good work IDing the shot at Berwick. No doubt Ric wishes it still looked like this! By the way, did you notice that a weed sprayer had been recently been working along the line? The two views spoken about above both show that, as does this view, which is currently up on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=001

This view is from the same trip as the two discussed earlier. Anyone have an idea on this one? Enjoy the puzzle.


Take care,

Chuck Conway

[Dan Conlin]

The ebay photo is Aylesford. You can see the foundation of the Aylesford Watertower on the right just beyond the white warehouse.

Dan

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If you follow this link, then where from here would that photo have been taken from and which way is it facing?

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8& ... 08218&z=18

[Ric]

Go east from your link to the next road crossing with the silver roof and that is where the photo was taken. You would be looking east.