Windsor Enginehouse

The first enginehouse at Windsor was built by the Nova Scotia Railway in the 1850s to service and turn locomotives when they railway reached Windsor. The engine shed was 150 feet long by 20 feet wide and included a 50-foot long iron and wood turntable^[1] which was enclosed by an octagonal structure. The engine shed was taken over by the Windsor & Annapolis Railway and later the Dominion Atlantic when they leased they leased the Windsor Branch. By 1912 the turntable enclosure had been removed. The engine house and turntable were located on the north edge of Fort Edward Hill.

The first enginehouse was demolished and replaced in 1916 by a three-stall engine house located inside the Windsor wye, built by the same DAR crew that built the Middleton Enginehouse and Kentville Roundhouse.

A final engine house and car shop was built in Windsor inside the wye about 1995 by the Windsor and Hantsport Railway.

Bird's Eve View of Windsor Nova Scotia 1878 showing the Windsor Enginehouse and turntable, 1878.
The Windsor Enginehouse and the circular structure covering the turntable, with the Windsor Cotton Mill in background, circa 1884.
Locomotive No. 380 with crew on the turntable at the Windsor Enginehouse, 1912.
The Weekly Monitor article on construction of the Middleton Enginehouse, followed by the new Windsor Enginehouse and Kentville Roundhouse, Aug. 23, 1916.
The second Windsor Enginehouse with part of the Colonial Fertilizer in the background, circa 1920s.
DAR locomotive No. 23 at the Windsor Enginehouse, with the Colonial Fertilizer water tank in distance, summer 1924.
Windsor Fire Insurance Map, Sheet 1, overall plan with DAR mainline through Windsor and the Windsor Roundhouse", May 1934.
Survey plan of Halifax Subdivision tracks and structures through Windsor, with an outline of the 3 stall stall Windsor Enginehouse in the west end of the wye, Mar. 21, 1935, revised Jan. 1955.