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Windsor Track Scale
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The Track Scale in Windsor was a 120 ton Fairbanks model scale installed second hand in 1941,[1] in the Windsor railyard on the north side of the Truro Subdivision mainline.[2] The scale remained in service until the south yard tracks were lifted in 1990. A smaller track scale was located in Windsor. The scale was often used to weigh gypsum cars being trans-shipped to other parts of Canada to ensure they did not exceed running limits.[3] The scale remained in use when the DAR was sold to the Windsor and Hantsport Railway. Vinyl siding was added over the old CPR clapboard about 2005.
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References
- ↑ 1969 Memorandum of General Information, page 4
- ↑ Kentville railyard Track Plan 1974
- ↑ Scale operations are described by Gary Ness in his book Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 2), page 25.
