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Kentville Water Tower
Kentville Water Tower
A series of water towers associated with the Kentville Terminal Shops supplied steam locomotives.
The First Water Tower
Early locomotives may have been supplied by an internal water tank in the original Windsor and Annapolis Kentville Roundhouse, but the first documented water tower was located south of the mainline and just east of the W&AR engine house and shops, close to Main Street. It had a square wooden base.[1]
Annotated detail of Kentville Fire Insurance Map showing the roundhouse, machine shop, the old W&AR Water Tower and Kentville Railyard, Aug. 1921.
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The first Kentville Water Tower on the south side of the DAR yard, early 1920s.
The Second Water Tower
A standard CPR 10,000 gallon[2] semi-enclosed octagonal wooden water tower, it was at first located by the turntable and had two discharge pies, one by the roundhouse lead and the other on the Kingsport branch line.
No. 544 on the turntable, circa 1930. The water tower , on the far right, occupies its first location, before it was moved & replaced with a stand pipe.
Detail from Kentville Track Schematic showing Kentville Roundhouse, Kentville Machine Shop and Kentville Water Tower, circa 1920.
No. 1090 on the turntable with the water tower in the background at Kentville on May 2, 1939.
Locomotive No. 470 on the turntable with the Kentville Water Tower and Yard Crane No. 3 in background, circa 1942.
No. 44 at the Kentville Water Tower on June 9, 1942.
The Third Water Tower
A new water tower, also a standard CPR semi-enclosed octagonal design was built closer to the river about 1943 and replaced at the turntable lead by a water stand pipe. It served until the end of steam in the early 1960s.
No. 2511 at the Kentville Roundhouse with the Kentville Water Tower stand pipe after the tower was removed about 1943.
Locomotive No. 470 on the turntable with the Water Tower in background, circa 1944.
Train No. 14 arriving at Kentville led by No. 470. engine terminal at left. water stand pipe in centre. August 1949.
The Canada Foods Plant with the Kentville Roundhouse, plus the Kentville Water Tower, the Kentville Cornwallis River Bridge and the Spillway Trestle in 1949.
Water stand pipe with the Kentville Machine Shop in the background, c. 1950.
Locomotive No. 2551 in front of the Kentville Machine Shop by the stand pipe of the Kentville Water Tower, August 30, 1953.
2551 near water tower in Kentville Yard 1953-08-30 (looking southwards)
Locomotive 6560 beside the Kentville Sanding Tower with the Water Tower and Yard Crane 3 in the background, 1956.
No. 6227 in front of Kentville Roundhouse on August 27, 1956. Visible as well, boiler plant and smoke stack, turntable, water stand pipe, coaling tower and sanding tower.
Roundhouse turntable view of CPR No. 6227 at Kentville on August 27, 1956. Visible as well, boiler plant and smoke stack, water stand pipe, coaling tower and sanding tower.
No. 2526 arriving at Kentville with Train No. 12 from Kingsport, Aug. 27, 1956. Also visible, switcher No. 6227, turntable, water stand pipe, coaling tower, sand tower, track crane and boiler plant stack.
No. 6227 in front of the turntable with the water standpipe behind on August 27, 1956.
No. 2627, 4-6-2 on the turntable with the boiler plant stack and water stand pipe, August 1958.
No. 8138 leading wayfreight at Kentville leaving for Windsor Junction in August 1959. Visible is the Kentville Coaling Tower and the Kentville Water Tower from this view of the Kentville Railyard.
No. 8138, '58 Pontiac inspection car, Kentville Coaling Tower, Kentville Roundhouse, the Kentville Water Tower and the Kentville Car Shop all visible from this view of the Kentville Railyard, Kentville in August 1959.
View of the Kentville Railyard looking east from the roundhouse in 1961.
