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New Minas Ballast Pit
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New Minas Ballast Pit
Mile 51.5 from Windsor Junction on the Halifax Subdivision. (Mile 67.9 from Halifax) at New Minas
The New Minas ballast pit opened at Mile 51.5[1] in 1958. The Joseph Fritz scrap metal business was located just above the ballast pit and used the pit to scrap railway equipment in the 1960s, including Crane No. 3, the old Kentville yard crane.[2]
Gallery
Final resting spot of Van No. 91 at New Minas on Sept 12, 1964.
Final resting spot of Van No. 91 at New Minas on Sept 12, 1964.
References
- ↑ Dominion Atlantic Railway Employee Time Table - April 29, 1962, p.4
- ↑ Interview by Dan Conlin with Arthur Lockwood, son of Albert Lockwood, June 30, 2012
