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Category:Apple Warehouses

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Apple warehouses were the most common trackside structures along the Dominion Atlantic. Over 150 of them were located along the line serving the Apple Trains that were one of the mainstays of DAR operations. Warehouses began to be built in the 1880s and continued as important rail traffic sources until the 1950s. Like grain elevators in Western Canada, they were all built in a similar way but also had numerous variations in size and style depending on where and when they were built. Although the DAR is now gone and Nova Scotia's apple industry is a shadow of its past size, a surprising number of apple warehouses have found alternative use for storage, retail, workshop, chicken and vegetable use.

Halifax Subdivision Warehouses

Kentville Subdivision Warehouses

Kingsport Subdivision Warehouses

There were a number of warehouses on the DAR’s Centreville to Kingsport line (formerly Cornwallis Valley Railway) and Centreville to Weston line (formerly North Mountain Railway). These were mostly constructed with a similar design and dimensions such that they are easily recognizable to this day, even with extensive modifications. Most were of one-and-a-half story timber construction with a cedar shingle exterior, metal roofing, a main floor at loading level which was free of support columns, a second floor under the roof and a frost-free cellar, with thick walls, underneath. The foundation walls were of brick and mortared stone, or poured concrete.

Yarmouth Subdivision Warehouses

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