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Kentville Car Shop
Kentville Car Shop
First Car Shop 1869 to 1937
Built by the Windsor and Annapolis Railway in 1869, the car shop in Kentville not only repaired cars but also built some freight cars and many W&A and DAR passengers cars, including No.1, No. 4, No. 5, No. 6 and baggage cars Nos. 52, 53, 55 and 56. It was destroyed by a massive fire of unknown cause on October 20, 1937 which also destroyed a passenger coach, caboose and flanger which were inside the shop.[1]
Gallery
The first recorded photo of the Kentville Station taken in 1869, also showing the Freight Shed and Car Shop.
Kentville Station, Car Shop, paint shop and Rail Yard, July 27, 1871.
Bird's Eve View of Kentville Nova Scotia 1879: detail showing W&AR Kentville Car Shop at left and the Kentville Paint Shop at right, 1879.
Kentville with the Kentville Railyard, Kentville Car Shop, Kentville Station and the Aberdeen Hotel, circa 1869.
Kentville Station with the Kentville Freight Shed and the Kentville Car Shop in distance, circa 1910.
Kentville Station with parlour car Haligonian or Mayflower; Kentville Freight Shed and Car Shop, after 1904 addition.
Kentville Station with car shop in the background, circa 1904-1914.
DAR Van DAR No. 96 in Kentville with the Kentville Car Shop and conductor Harry Taylor on the left, circa 1920.
Article in The Advertiser about destruction of car shop by fire, Oct, 21, 1937.
Ruins of the Kentville Car Shop after Oct. 21, 1937 fire and Kentville Repair Shop in background, likely taken Oct. 21 to 22, 1937.
Second Car Shop 1937 to 199x
Built by DAR Bridge & Building Department after original W & A wooden car shop burned in October 1937. Construction began in November 1937, finished December 1937:[2]
- 46 feet by 217 feet
- Concrete base, brick tile walls
- Two through tracks
- Attached office
The Car Shop was converted to Car and Locomotive Shop after Roundhouse closed in the 1960s.
The shop closed in October 1993 when the DAR abandoned its tracks in Kentville. Servicing for cars and the three remaining DAR locomotives was moved to outdoor facilities in Hantsport.[3]
Demolished 200x
Gallery
The new Kentville Car Shop and coaling bucket loader mast, circa late January 1938.
Car Shops seen from the Coaling Tower, circa late 1940s, early 1950s.
Locomotive No. 555 in front of the Kentville Car Shop, circa 1940.
The Kentville Car Shop crew, 1949.
No. 2665 in the Kentville Railyard in August 1951 after arriving with Train No. 95. Also visible is business car Nova Scotia parked by the repair shop with the car shop to left.
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. 470 in front of Kentville Car Shop at Kentville in August 1951.
Kentville Railyard looking east showing the boiler plant, car shop, freight shed, coaling and sanding towers and machine shop, 1958 July 31.
1958 Pontiac inspection car at the SE corner of the Kentville Car Shop in Kentville, circa 1958.
No. 8138, '58 Pontiac inspection car, Kentville Coaling Tower, Roundhouse, the Water Tower and the Car Shop all visible at the Kentville Railyard, August 1959.
Turntable, power plant, car shop and No. 8131, from door of roundhouse in August 1959.
Employees inside the Kentville Car Shop, date unknown.
No. 8131 and No. 8132 with loco shops and turntable on right, and car shops and power plant on left in August 1959.
View of the Kentville Railyard looking east from the roundhouse in 1961.
Front of RDC No. 9058 in the Kentville Car Shop after collision with a Burro Crane at Coldbrook, Oct. 30, 1965.
Kentville Railyard with left to right, the Kentville Car Shop, Kentville Repair Shop and the Kentville Station, 1967.
Kentville engine servicing facilities on July 20, 1967. Visible are the Kentville Coaling Tower, Engine No. 8136, the Kentville Roundhouse and the corner of the Kentville Car Shop.
No. 8136 at the Kentville Car Shop circa 1972.
No. 8136 parked on one of the Kentville Car Shop tracks, August 1972.
No. 8132 parked on one of the Kentville Car Shop tracks, August 1972.
No. 8138 at Kentville Car Shop in Kentville in August 1973.
No. 8132 at Kentville August 1974 beside the Kentville Car Shop with the Kentville Repair Shop behind.
Inside the Car shop looking out - 2nd May 1976
No.8137 and No. 8139 & unknown sister inside Kentville Car Shop in June 1976.
CP No. 8131 inside Kentville Car Shop in May 1977.
Diesel shop in Kentville, formerly the car shop on August 17, 1977.
Van 436994 at Kentville April 14 1979 in front of the mechanical shop. Note the sand tower on the roof.
No. 8136 and two sisters at the Kentville Car Shop on July 7, 1979.
No. 8136 pokes its hood out of the Kentville Car Shop, undated.
DAR434061 and DAR434038 along with a VIA RDC are parked by the Kentville Car Shop on May 22, 1989.
Locomotive No.1274 and hopper in the Kentville Car Shop, May 29, 1989.
Kentville Railyard with the Kentville Coaling Tower, Kentville Car Shop and the Kentville Repair Shop, October 1990.
The Kentville Boiler Plant and Kentville Car Shop, Oct. 27, 1990.
Kentville Railyard and the Kentville Car Shop, 1990.
North side of the Kentville Car Shop after demolition of the Kentville Boiler Plant, 1990.
No. 1273 is parked outside the Kentville Car Shop in August 1992.
No. 1273 inside the Kentville Car Shop in August 1992.
No. 1273 inside the Kentville Car Shop in August 1992.
No. 1273 along with van No. 434676 inside the Kentville Car Shop in August 1992.
The Kentville Car Shop as viewed on August 29, 1993.
The Kentville Car Shop as viewed on August 29, 1993.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ "$45,000 LOSS IN EARLY MORNING FIRE HERE, Car Shop of D. A. R. Completely Razed, Cause of Blaze Unknown", The Advertiser, October 21, 1937, page 1
- ↑ George Bishop, "Railway Notes", The Advertiser, Nov. 11, 1937 and "Railway Notes", The Advertiser, Jan. 27, 1938
- ↑ David Othen, Dominion Atlantic Railway The Final 25 Years, page 79.
