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Image:CP8132a.jpg|[[CPR8132|No. 8132]] at [[Kentville]] August 1974 beside the [[Kentville Car Shop]] with the [[Kentville Repair Shop]] behind. | Image:CP8132a.jpg|[[CPR8132|No. 8132]] at [[Kentville]] August 1974 beside the [[Kentville Car Shop]] with the [[Kentville Repair Shop]] behind. | ||
Image:CP8131 inside Kentville shops May 1977 David Othen medium.jpg|CP [[CPR8131|No. 8131]] inside [[Kentville Car Shop]] in May 1977. | Image:CP8131 inside Kentville shops May 1977 David Othen medium.jpg|CP [[CPR8131|No. 8131]] inside [[Kentville Car Shop]] in May 1977. | ||
| + | Image:Car Shop Kentville 1977.jpg|Diesel shop in Kentville, formerly the [[Kentville Car Shop|car shop]] on August 17, 1977. | ||
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Revision as of 08:51, 25 June 2008
Kentville Car Shop
Built by DAR Bridge & Building Deptartment November to December 1937 after original W & A wooden car shop burned on October 20, 1937.
Concrete base, brick tile walls, two through tracks 46 feet by 217 feet, office attached.
Converted to Car and Locomotive Shop after Roundhouse closed.
Shop closed 199x
Demolished 200x
Gallery
Business Car Nova Scotia beside the Kentville Car Shop in August 1949.
No. 2665 in the Kentville Railyard in August 1951 after bringing in Train No. 95 from Halifax. Also visible is business card Nova Scotia parked against the repair shop and to the left the car shop.
Engine No. 2516 loco for Train No. 95 heading to engine service facilities in front of the Kentville Car Shop in August 1951. Kentville Boiler Plant exhaust stack behind that.
No. 470 in front of Kentville Car Shop at Kentville in August 1951.
- CPR8134 and 58 Pontiac.jpg
No. 8134, '58 Pontiac inspection car, Kentville Coaling Tower, Kentville Roundhouse, the Kentville Water Tower and the Kentville Car Shop all visable from this view of the Kentville Railyard, Kentville in August 1959.
1958 Pontiac inspection car at the SE corner of the Kentville Car Shop in Kentville.
View of the Kentville Railyard looking east from the roundhouse in 1961.
Kentville engine servicing facilities on July 20, 1967. Visable is the Kentville Coaling Tower, Engine No. 8136, the Kentville Roundhouse and the corner of the Kentville Car Shop.
No. 8138 at Kentville Car Shop in Kentville in August 1973.
No. 8132 at Kentville August 1974 beside the Kentville Car Shop with the Kentville Repair Shop behind.
CP No. 8131 inside Kentville Car Shop in May 1977.
Diesel shop in Kentville, formerly the car shop on August 17, 1977.
References and Footnotes
- Kentville Advertiser, Nov. 10, 1937, Jan. 27, 1938
