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Kentville Boiler Plant
Kentville Boiler Plant
Kentville's first boiler plant was located at the 1869 Engine Shed to power machinery in the shed. In 1920, a new boiler plant was built between the Kentville Roundhouse and the new machine shop. The boiler plant was a 30' x 36' building with a 60 foot high brick chimney and two boilers delivering 200 HP.[1] A final boiler plan 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.[2] Through overhead and underground steam lines, it provided steam to power and heat the Kentville Roundhouse, Kentville Car Shop, Kentville Repair Shop, Kentville Machine Shop and parked passenger cars. It was eventually converted to oil and was demolished about 1990.
Gallery
Locomotive No. 2552 on the turntable with the Kentville Boiler Plant and Machine Shop in background, circa 1942.
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 Aug. 27, 1956. Visible are the boiler plant & smoke stack, turntable, water stand pipe, coaling tower and sanding tower.
Kentville 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 Kentville with Train No. 12 from Kingsport on Aug. 27, 1956. Visible are yard switcher No. 6227, 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.
Kentville Railyard looking east showing the boiler plant, car shop, freight shed, coaling and sanding towers and machine shop, 1958 July 31.
No. 2627, 4-6-2 on the Kentville turntable lead with the boiler plant stack and water stand pipe, August 1958.
No. 8131 and No. 8132 with the DAR machine shop and turntable on right, and car shops and power plant on left in August 1959.
Kentville Turntable, power plant, car shop and No. 8131, from door of roundhouse in August 1959.
View of the Kentville Railyard looking east from the roundhouse in 1961.
Caboose 435398 in Kentville with Kentville Boiler Plant in background, 16th May 1976.
Kentville Railyard looking east with, left to right: the turntable, boiler plant, coal tower, car shop, repair shop, Kentville Station and the Kentville Track Scale, May 29, 1989.
The Kentville Boiler Plant and Kentville Car Shop, Oct. 27, 1990.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ Canadian Railway and Marine World, "Projected Lines, Construction Betterments, Etc. Work in 1920", November 1920
- ↑ Kentville Fire Insurance Map, 1951, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management
