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==Apple Trains== | ==Apple Trains== | ||
| + | Massive amounts of apple freight were a staple of the DAR. From September to April, apples were loaded at 150 fruitwarehouses along the DAR. Local trains brought them to [[Kentville]] to be marshalled into freight trains bound for steamships in [[Halifax]], often in peaks season as massive double header freight specials. Apple movements often required and extra switcher to be sent by the CPR from Montreal as well as additional cabooses. Apple traffic helped build the DAR. The loss of the British export market during World War Two crippled the apple industry and greatly reduced DAR freight traffic from the 1940s onward. | ||
<Gallery> | <Gallery> | ||
| − | Image:Apple Train Halifax 1925.jpg | + | Image:Apple Train Halifax 1925.jpg|Apple train in [[Halifax]] in 1925. |
| + | Image:Sheffield Mills.jpg|Typical DAR scene, circa 1930: small country station with giant apple warehouses. | ||
| + | Image:Apple warehouses.jpg|Map by Willard Longley showing apple warehouse locations in 1931. | ||
</Gallery> | </Gallery> | ||
==References and Footnotes== | ==References and Footnotes== | ||
| + | Kentville Advertiser, 1936 | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
Revision as of 19:43, 12 November 2008
Apple Trains
Massive amounts of apple freight were a staple of the DAR. From September to April, apples were loaded at 150 fruitwarehouses along the DAR. Local trains brought them to Kentville to be marshalled into freight trains bound for steamships in Halifax, often in peaks season as massive double header freight specials. Apple movements often required and extra switcher to be sent by the CPR from Montreal as well as additional cabooses. Apple traffic helped build the DAR. The loss of the British export market during World War Two crippled the apple industry and greatly reduced DAR freight traffic from the 1940s onward.
Apple train in Halifax in 1925.
Typical DAR scene, circa 1930: small country station with giant apple warehouses.
Map by Willard Longley showing apple warehouse locations in 1931.
References and Footnotes
Kentville Advertiser, 1936
