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Kentville Boiler Plant
Kentville Boiler Plant
The boiler plant at Kentville was built in the 1930s and included a 80 foot brick tile smokestack lettered "D.A.R." as well as an elevated coaling siding attached to the north unload coal. Through overhead and underground steam lines, it provided steam to power and heat the Kentville Roundhouse, Kentville Car Shop, Kentville Repair Shop, Kentville Machine Shops and parked passenger cars.
Gallery
The boiler plant with its smokestack and coal unloading embankment seen from the Coaling Tower, circa late 1940s, early 1950s.
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. 6227 in front of Kentville Roundhouse on August 27, 1956. Visable as well, boiler plant and smoke stack, roundhouse turntable, water stand pipe, coaling tower and sanding tower.
Roundhouse turntable view of CPR No. 6227 at Kentville on August 27, 1956. Visable 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 on August 27, 1956. Visable as well, yard switcher No. 6227, roundhouse turntable, water stand pipe, coaling tower, sanding tower, track crane and boiler plant smoke stack.
Mixed Train for Kingsport leaving yard. Visible is business car Nova Scotia beside the repair shop and the coaling tower in Kentville on August 28, 1956.
No. 8131 and No. 8132 with loco shops and turntable on right, and car shops and power plant on left in August 1959.
View of the Kentville Railyard looking east from the roundhouse in 1961.
References and Footnotes
Kentville Fire Insurance Map, 1951, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management.
