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Kentville Track Scale
The Track Scale in Kentville was a 100 ton Fairbanks model scale,[1] installed second hand in 1942 [2] in the Kentville Railyard on the south side of the mainline facing the Kentville Machine Shop. It was served by a 748 foot siding.[3] The scale remained in service until the south yard tracks were lifted in 1990. A larger track scale was located in Windsor.
Gallery
CPR diesel No. 8135 passes through the Kentville Railyard past the south side of the machine shop and past the track scale, 1961.
Kentville Railyard, with left to right: corner of Kentville Roundhouse, CPR Van 437345, DAR scrap line, snow plows, Car Shop, Coaling Tower, Repair Shop, Kentville Station and the Kentville Track Scale, May 26, 1977.
Kentville Railyard looking east with, left to right: the roundhouse, boiler plant, coal tower, car shop, repair shop, Kentville Station and the Kentville Track Scale, May 29, 1989.
South side of the Kentville Railyard looking west with the Kentville Track Scale, October 1990.
Kentville Railyard with the Kentville Track Scale in the centre & the foundation of the Kentville Machine Shop in the foreground, 1990.
References
- ↑ 1969 Memorandum of General Information, page 9
- ↑ A photo of Train No. 95 on June 8, 1942 shows the foundations being poured for the scale. Gary W. Ness, Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 2), page 27.
- ↑ Kentville Railyard Track Plan 1974
