Kentville Railyard

The shunting yards in Kentville were located south of the the roundhouse and machine shop. The yard consisted of four shunting sidings to the north of DAR the mainline, North 1, North 2, North 3 and North 4 and four shunting spur located to the south of the mainline, South 1, South 2, South 3 and South 4. The shunting yard also contained the Kentville Track Scale. A siding and lead track connected the various yard tracks.

North of the

D.A.R. railyard in Kentville.

D.A.R. railyard in Kentville on June 21, 1987.

Kentville including D.A.R. railyard.

D.A.R. railyard in Kentville, 1974. This drawing is difficult to read but is proportionately correct and was scanned at 200 DPI. The images below although not proportionally correct because they appeared photographed, not scanned, are the same map in sections and very readable with additional notes to explain some of the original notations on the map. The two buildings immediatley east of the roundhouse are the machine shop and blacksmith shop.

Railyard in sections

The above drawing is difficult to read but is proportionately correct and was scanned at 200 DPI. These images although not proportionally correct because they appeared photographed, not scanned, are the same map as above in sections and very readable with additional notes to explain some of the original notations on the map.

These images are just begging to be put on CAD. If anyone can help this way or advise what the proper way to set up a CAD file for land mapping is so others can do the tracing, please let us know. See this message thread on our forum: http://dardpi.ca/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18#p49

Entire Map - low res. Same as above large map.
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No. 2665 departs Kentville leading Train No. 95 through the Kentville Railyard. Visible is sanding tower and the roof of the Machine Shop store shed, August 1951.
Kentville Railyard and P. R. Ritcey spur east of the Station, July 1958.
Kentville Railyard looking east from the base of the coal tower July 1958.
Kentville Railyard looking east showing the boiler plant, car shop, freight shed, coaling and sanding towers and machine shop, July 31, 1958.
CPR diesel No. 8135 passes through the Kentville Railyard past the south side of the machine shop and past the track scale, 1961.
Kentville Railyard looking west with the coal tower on the left and the roundhouse in the very back and car shop to the right, 1967.
Kentville Railyard with Kentville Station to right, Feb. 14, 1976.
The Kentville Railyard with Coaling Tower and stored MOW equipment, circa Feb 1976.
Kentville Turntable in front of Roundhouse with Kentville Railyard in background, May 5, 1976.
Looking out from the Kentville Turntable into the Kentville Railyard - 6th May 1976
Kentville Railyard, May 31, 1976.
Kentville Railyard composite photo with the Kentville Coaling Tower, Kentville Car Shop and the Kentville Repair Shop, October 1990.
South side of the Kentville Railyard looking west with the Kentville Track Scale, October 1990.