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Brooklyn
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Brooklyn, Hants County, Nova Scotia
Subdivision Truro, Mile 6.18, Elevation 38'
Next Station West: Scotch Village
Next Station East: Mantua
Facilities & Features
- T. G. McMullen Sawmill[1]
- Wood Chip Loading Platform for F. S. Etter & Sons.[2] (Pulpwood chips)
- Hants Co-operative Services Ltd.[2](Fertilizer, Petroleum products, flour, feed)
- Hog Stock Pen[3]
- Grain Elevator and Feed mill[3]
Description & History
Operations & Orders
Switching operations on siding described by Gary Ness.[3]
Gallery
gypsum quarry spurs in the Windsor, Dimock's, Brooklyn and Newport areas, from geological map, 1909.
Topographic map from Avonport to Shaws Bog circa 1956.
Brooklyn Station 1958 July Looking Westbound.
Dominion Atlantic Station at Brooklyn on August 1, 1958.
Brooklyn Station as seen from engine No. 2627 leading Train No. 22 on August 1, 1958.
Brooklyn Station 1958 August
Brooklyn Station, Hants County, NS. on July 20, 1967.
References & Footnotes
- ↑ Edith McGray, Brooklyn in Retrospect, p205-206
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 1969 Memorandum of General Information, p21
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gary W. Ness, Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 2), p12
