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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 Lumber Sawmill[1][2]
- Wood Chip Loading Platform for F. S. Etter & Sons.[3] (Pulpwood chips)
- Hants Co-operative Services Ltd. including:[3]
2 storey building for fertilizer, petroleum products, flour, feed
Apple packing warehouse[2]
Grain Elevator and Feed mill[4][2]
Description & History
Operations & Orders
Switching operations on siding described by Gary Ness.[4]
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 facilities, taken from the Feed Mill, looking east with the co-op store and the Brooklyn Station, circa 1946.
Dominion Atlantic Station at Brooklyn on August 1, 1958.
Brooklyn Station, Hants County, NS. on July 20, 1967.
References & Footnotes
- ↑ Edith Clare and The Reverand George Stanley McGray, Brooklyn in Retrospect, 1992, p205-206
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Holly Hanes, Notes from Facebook group DARDPI.ca, 2018-04-02
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 1969 Memorandum of General Information, p21
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gary W. Ness, Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 2), p12
