Showing posts with label Nova Scotia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nova Scotia. Show all posts

Saturday, September 08, 2012

Trackside Log for Saturday, September 8, 2012

This morning Sam, Missy and I departed Halifax and drove to our first stop of the day: Peggy's Cove. After some very nice photographs we meandered our way to the Windsor & Hantsport Railway. The first location was Windsor where the shop building is. The railway has been idle for some time now due to the closure of the gypsum mine which is obvious from the quantity of rust on the rails.

  • 1302 ADT Windsor, NS - WHRC Evangeline Express passenger car
  • 1303 ADT Windsor, NS - WHRC shops
  • 1305 ADT Windsor, NS - WHRC ballast sweeper and gypsum cars
  • 1314 ADT Windsor, NS - WHRC caboose - WHRC 150
  • 1314 ADT Windsor, NS - Windsor & Hantsport tracks

When I looked through a window in the shops I could see that the two B23-7s, WHRC 1968-WHRC 4079, were inside.

Next, after Sam visited Gaspereau Valley Fibres near Wolfville, I drove through Hantsport. This is the location of the gypsum ship loading facility and a former Dominion Atlantic Railway station. Here is where I found most of the gypsum cars parked.

  • 1433 ADT Hantsport, NS - WHRC station (former Dominion Atlantic Railway)
  • 1435 ADT Hantsport, NS - WHRC gypsum cars
  • 1442 ADT Hantsport, NS - WHRC hi-rail
After visiting Windsor and Hantsport I saw that things are very different from ten years ago when Marcus and I visited the railway. The RS-23s were in service and we photographed a tourist train. The current state of the railway is sad indeed. Having finished photographing the remains of the last extant section of the Dominion Atlantic Railway, Sam, Missy and I drove the south shore of the Bay of Fundy and watched the tidal bore on the Salmon River in Truro before finding lodging in Moncton, New Brunswick.

Friday, September 07, 2012

Trackside Log for Friday, September 7, 2012

This morning Sam, Missy and I departed from Truro, Nova Scotia and passed by the Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia yard again. Once again nothing interesting was there so we began our journey toward Cape Breton Island. Our first stop was Stellarton where we discovered the road power, a GP9 and a snow plow.

  • 0946 ADT Stellarton, NS - CBNS plow - CBNS 55371
  • 0948 ADT Stellarton, NS - CBNS power - HLCX 7869-HLCX 7232
  • 0949 ADT Stellarton, NS - CBNS power - HLCX 8151-LLPX 2269
  • 0950 ADT Stellarton, NS - CBNS power - RLK 4004

After photographs we continued eastward. We stopped at Port Hawkesbury but were not rewarded with anything to photograph. After a couple Blizzards from Dairy Queen we drove to Sydney. Ten years ago Marcus and I were in Sydney not long after the closure of Sydney Steel and the Devco mine. It was very bleak looking. I discovered that nothing remains of the steel mills and some of the lands have been converted to parkland. Sydney is much less depressing looking than my previous visit.

After some exploration and a visit to Luckenbooth Yarns for Sam, we headed back west again. After another knitting stop at Baadeck Yarns in Baddeck and we were on to Orangedale to visit the railway museum there. The museum looks much the same as my previous visit of a decade ago.

  • 1703 ADT Orangedale, NS - Orangedale Railway Museum - Terra Transport "Terra Nova" 2
  • 1704 ADT Orangedale, NS - Orangedale Railway Museum - CN 55432
  • 1705 ADT Orangedale, NS - Orangedale Railway Museum - ex-Georgia Pacific GE 50-ton
  • 1705 ADT Orangedale, NS - Orangedale Railway Museum - DR 6006
  • 1705 ADT Orangedale, NS - Orangedale Railway Museum - CN 78513
  • 1710 ADT Orangedale, NS - former Intercolonial Railway station

We continued west and stopped off in Stellarton once again. This time the road power was missing. It likely went to Truro. By this time the sun was getting low so we drove directly to our lodging for the evening and to visit with a friend, Shannon, who lives in Halifax.

Sunday, July 14, 2002

Trackside Log for Sunday, July 14, 2002

  • Windsor, Nova Scotia - Windsor & Hantsport westbound - WHRC 8036/WHRC 8038
  • Windsor, Nova Scotia - Windsor & Hantsport power - WHRC 8026
  • Windsor, Nova Scotia - Windsor & Hantsport power - WHRC 8042
  • Windsor, Nova Scotia - Windsor & Hantsport power - WHRC 8046
  • Windsor, Nova Scotia - Windsor & Hantsport power - WHRC 8027
  • Windsor, Nova Scotia - Windsor & Hantsport power - WHRC 8041
  • Falmouth, Nova Scotia - Windsor & Hantsport westbound - WHRC 8036/WHRC 8038
  • Hantsport, Nova Scotia - Windsor & Hantsport westbound - WHRC 8036/WHRC 8038
  • Avonport, Nova Scotia - Windsor & Hantsport westbound - WHRC 8036/WHRC 8038
  • Grand PrĂ©, Nova Scotia - Windsor & Hantsport westbound - WHRC 8036/WHRC 8038
  • Wolfville, Nova Scotia - Windsor & Hantsport westbound - WHRC 8036/WHRC 8038
  • Sackville, New Brunswick - VIA 15 west "The Ocean" - VIA 6413-VIA 6406
  • Hillsborough, New Brunswick - Salem & Hillsborough power - SH 1754
  • Hillsborough, New Brunswick - Salem & Hillsborough power - SH 8245
  • Hillsborough, New Brunswick - Salem & Hillsborough power - SH 1754
  • Hillsborough, New Brunswick - static display - CNR 1009

Saturday, July 13, 2002

Trackside Log for Saturday, July 13, 2002

  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - GEXR 4022
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - CBNS 4700
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - CBNS 5967
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - RLK 4000
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - RLK 4004
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - RLK 4002
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - CBNS 2034
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - CBNS 62
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - CBNS 3842
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - GSWR 2176
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - GSWR 2160
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - CBNS 3716
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - CBNS 2003
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - CBNS 2016
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - CBNS 2032
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - CBNS 2039
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - CBNS 3675
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - CBNS 3627
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - CBNS 2016
  • Sydney, Nova Scotia - Sydney Steel Co. power - SYSCO no#-SYSCO 15-SYSCO 14
  • Stellarton, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia switcher - LLPX 1504-LLPX 1508

Friday, July 12, 2002

Trackside Log for Friday, July 12, 2002

  • Stellarton, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - LLPX 1504-LLPX 1508
  • Port Hawksbury, Nova Scotia - Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia power - LLPX 1506
  • Port Hawksbury, Nova Scotia - CBNS 305 west - HATX 910-HATX 912
  • Port Hastings, Nova Scotia - CBNS 305 west - HATX 910-HATX 912
  • Port Hastings, Nova Scotia - CBNS 305 west - HATX 907-HATX 910-HATX 912 (lifted HATX 907 at Port Hastings)
  • Porcupine Mountain, Nova Scotia - CBNS 305 west - HATX 907-HATX 910-HATX 912
  • Havre Boucher, Nova Scotia - CBNS 305 west - HATX 907-HATX 910-HATX 912
  • Porcupine Mountain, Nova Scotia - CBNS 701 west - RLK 4003
  • Orangedale, Nova Scotia - Georgia Pacific switcher - GP no# (GE 50ton)