Old Kentville Photo

[SamuelMClark]

I do hope you find it as I'd want to see it so I can update my anyrails version of the Kentville yard, I keep a copy of the real yards to close as possible via anyrails, and I just noticed something in that photo which is a siding and I had been using part of the line going into the full yard.

[SamuelMClark]

Kentville Yard

[Paul Charland]

Are these what you are looking for?



















Paul

[stem]

I think we already went though this a long time ago. Look at the wiki if I'm not mistakend:
http://www.dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?tit ... Map_1L.jpg

[SamuelMClark]

But those ones that Paul posted above are cleaner than the one that's on the site.

Cheers Paul.

[stem]

Well that is true... one day someone will CAD the drawing and then we'll have a perfectly clean scaleable copy!

By the way, what did you draw your yard drawing with? Is it a raster art program or a bitmap drawing program?

[Paul Charland]

A clean labelled CAD drawing of the yard, that's not a bad idea.

Paul

[Dan Conlin]

Thank you for those notations Paul. I find many of those numbers on railway plans to be mystifying. Your notations make them seem much more coherent.
The distance between tracks, is that centre to centre or rail to rail?
Also nice to see the photo of the insurance plans - they are gold mines of building and business info. One cautionary note, while the siding info is very good, I find the yard track info is less reliable, probably because railway yard tracks didn't have much bearing for insurance purposes.

Dan Conlin

[Paul Charland]

Hi Dan,

Not my drawings, I downloaded them from somewhere about ten years ago.

Distance between track is the center to center distance. Most switches are labelled N0. 9, now if I can find the geometry of a No. 9 switch that might help!

Paul

[stem]

Check out this great manual on track. Section 3.2 defines turnouts and what those numbers mean.
http://www.engsoc.org/~josh/AREMA/chapt ... 0Track.pdf

[Paul Charland]

Thanks Steve,

I downloaded a copy. I'm hoping Corel will let me draw one and drag copies into place when the time comes.

Paul

[stem]

Hey.. you could build your own add-on. Instead of XTracks it could be CTracks.

PS, those Selkirks are awesome that you built!

[Paul Charland]

Morning Steve,

I keep thinking of doing this in 3rd PlanIt software. It can be done as a line drawing, if's just trying to remember what I can export it as instead of just a screen grab that would get fuzzy when enlarged. With 3PI I'd have the ability of just dragging a switch to the end of a piece of track and it would properly align itself, I think I'd have to manually rotate it and move it as close as possible in Corel and live with the results.

"Texans" Steve... they didn't turn out too bad for my first steam!

Paul

[stem]

Fair game - was thinking CP T1a there for a minute!

[thomasreyno]

Going through my small number of photo resources I am not surprised to see that I have never seen a photo or drawing of what I think would be the front or street side of the kentville station. Not even a good aerial shot of what whould be there other then vehicles. I assume it is the front or street entrance. Was it a full facade or welcoming entrance or the business side with a door or two off the parking lots ? Ive always wondered how far to the end of the building passenger equipment ran when parked along the siding there.