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Round Hill Ballast Pit
Round Hill Ballast Pit
Mile 51.47 on the Kentville Subdivision
Located just east of the Round Hill station, the Round Hill Ballast Pit was the longest serving ballast pits used by the DAR providing sandy gravel ballast for the line from the steam era to the last decades of diesel. Located on the south side of the DAR mainline, it was served by a spur at Mile 51.47.[1] A variety of MOW steam shovels and loaders, such as steam shovel No. 850, loaded ballast cars at the pit.[2]
Ballast Pits crews stayed in crew cars parked at Bridgetown. In the 1950s, the steam shovel operator was Arthur Barkhouse while the Lidgerwood Ballast Car Unloader was Ralph Crowell.[3]
Gallery
DAR steam shovel loading ballast train with Van No. 435786 serving as pit office at the Round Hill Ballast Pit, 1935.
DAR Steam Shovel No. 4 with CP ballast car 367969 at the Round Hill Ballast Pit, circa 1937.
DAR Locomotive No. 999 with ballast train, possibly at the Round Hill Ballast Pit, July 1941.
Round Hill Ballast Pit with locomotive No. 929, drop-side ballast cars, a Lidgerwood Rapid Unloader, CPR Box car 132476 and a Northwest steam shovel, circa 1950-1956.
Round Hill Ballast Pit with locomotive No. 929 with a train of drop-side ballast cars and a Lidgerwood Rapid Unloader, circa 1950-1956.
The Round Hill Ballast Pit with a train of ballast cars, circa 1950-1956.
Crew car No. 412201 at Bridgetown in August of 1982.
Hopper car No. 361120 being used to transport ballast at Round Hill gravel pit in August 1982.
Westbound ballast train lead by No. 1275 at Kingston, going to Round Hill.
Parked ballast train at pulled by No. 1274 at the Round Hill Ballast Pit in May, 1987.
Parked ballast train with No. 1274 at Round Hill Ballast Pit in May, 1987.
No. 1274 is at Round Hill Ballast Pit in May 1987.
