E. E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse

Edward E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse Falmouth

(Later incorporated into the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse)

• Brick Construction
• Capacity (1927): 7,500 Apple Barrels
• Track Location:North Side of Tracks on spur, westward faing switch

History

Edward E. Armstrong was from a long-established family of farmers in the Falmouth area. He was an early investor in expanding the apple industry. He built a brick fruit warehouse at Falmouth in 1906, across from the Falmouth Station. Armstrong built a pair of of 37 foot refrigerator cars in 1906, ARL Nos 2500 and 2501. intended for fruit and dairy service. He had two more built in 1907 and by 1913, he had a fleet of five private refrigerator car. They were built at Rhodes, Curry & Co. in Amherst. Each had a 60,000 pound capacity and were painted light blue and lettered for the "Armstrong Refrigerator Line" on one end with a diamond shield and "Owned by E.E. Armstrong, Falmouth N.S." lettered on the other. Armstrong sold his refrigerator cars to the Intercolonial Railway in April 1913.

Armstrong's warehouse was later lengthened with a third loading door. His warehouse was later bought by the Falmouth Fruit Company who added to it and joined it together with an even larger new brick tile warehouse. The original Edwards brick warehouse survives today, as part of a large warehouse for the Avon Valley Floral Company, a prominent surviving railway landmark easily spotted from the Highway 101 at Falmouth.

Gallery

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  Receipt for refrigerator cars ARL Nos 2500 and 2501, ordered from Rhodes, Curry & Co. by Edward E. Armstrong, Aug. 17.1905.

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  Photograph of custom refrigerator car ARL No. 2500 made for Edward E. Armstrong, circa 1906.

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  Refrigerator car ARL No. 2501, made for Edward E. Armstrong, circa November 1906.

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  Falmouth Station with Windsor in background and new E. E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse, 1906.

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  Falmouth Station with the E. E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse and Armstrong's two refrigerator cars Nos. 2500 and 2501, circa 1906.

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  E. E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse in Falmouth, circa 1910.

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  E. E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse in Falmouth with his refrigerator cars Nos. 2500 and 2501 circa 1906 and same location in 2022.

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  DAR westbound freight at Falmouth Station with a brakeman on E. E. Armstrong's refrigerator car No. 2500, circa 1910.

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  News clipping: "E. E. Armstrong of Falmouth Sells His Refridgerator Cars", Canadian Railway and Marine World, April 1913.

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  Locomotive No. 8133 and Train No. 11, passing ruins of Falmouth Station and the E. E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse, now made part of the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse, July 1959.

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  Loading doors of the old E. E. Armstrong Apple Warehouse, later the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse in Falmouth, June 19, 2011.

External Links

Avon Valley Floral company, current owners

Chris Gertridge, Facebook Post about E.E. Armstrong fruit cars, October 20, 2022