More mysteries

[Ric]

These are from Rogers collection but I have no information on them. Anyone? Buhler? Buhler?

[stem]

According to Colin Churcher's history of the Springfield (http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailway ... ailway.htm) this is NOT a Springfield engine. I'm going to write Colin and ask him if he can identify any or all of the NONDAR photos.

By the way Ric.. Great Job on adding all this stuff into the wiki with categories and everything. Man.. you're a natural!

[Ric]

By the way Ric.. Great Job on adding all this stuff into the wiki with categories and everything. Man.. you're a natural!

I better not tell you that I had deleted the Windsor Junction page. Thank someone for that Undo function on the Wiki.

Regarding that tank engine, I was thinking maybe one of the mine locos?

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Heh heh. We've all deleted something from time to time editing the wiki. Not to worry. Like you said, thank goodness for undo. I also have backups that I can get photos and files from that might have vanished as well so we're pretty well covered.

I did write Colin. This engine has to be a British import. Just look at it! As an 0-4-0 I don't think it was well suited for much else besides mine or small swtiching work like a dock or maybe even a mill.

[Dan Conlin]

I think the saddle tank locomotive is Canadian Gypsum No. 6. Graham McBride has a page from his Dad's albums of Canadian Gypsum's locomotives No. 3,. 5, 6 and 7.
His photo of No. 6 is a close match to this one.

The Clyde and Sissiboo Pulp company in Weymouth also had a few saddle tank locomotives.

I don't think the station is DAR. Looks like a Halifax and South Western station to me.

Dan

[Dan Conlin]

Regarding the Cornwallis/Bear River Bridge photograph. I am certain this is the Avon River at Windsor. Compare the photo to this one in the Nova Scotia Museum Collection taken at a later date from the same angle: http://museum.gov.ns.ca/imagesns/binari ... V01514.jpg

The sorry looking covered bridge is the very first road bridge across the Avon River. I think is this is a quite early photo made not too long after the first W&AR bridge in the background was built. It was known as the "basket bridge" because of its basket like truss.

The Town of Windsor has a nice interp plaque with photos and dates for these bridges on the Windsor waterfront just below the Tim Hortons by the Windsor and Hantsport station.

Dan Conlin

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Holy moly Dan can you ever spot them. You must have one heck of a library and read one heck of a pile of books!!

If the tanker is a CG I'll put it back into the Private locomotive section under the CG compay.

The station, if it look like a H&SW to you Dan, might well be the Springfield station itself?

[Dan Conlin]

It is enjoyable to work out these puzzles. I leave the crosswords puzzles to my wife while I tackle minor mysteries of history.
I don't think the station image is the Springfield Station. The stations along that line, the old Nova Scotia Central Railway, were pretty much all long and one-story affairs.
Ric makes a good point about how open it is. It does look like the valley. I wonder if it was one of the stations on the CNR Line that went from Middleton out to Port Wade on the south side of Annapolis River, built as the Middleton and Victoria Beach Railway Company. That would fit Mr. Eisner's area of interest and collecting.

By the way, I found a small connection between the Springfield Railway and the DAR. The Railways of Canada archives has a good short history of the Springfield Railway ( http://www.trainweb.org/canadianrailway ... ailway.htm ) that says Srpingfield bought running rights in 1914 along the Nova Scotia Central from Springfield to Middleton. It was mainly to access some of their short spur lines running off the Central between these points deep into the South Mountain but just concievably, one of their little fleet of locos may have enjoyed a meet with DAR trains in Middelton.

Dan Conlin

[stem]

You got to love this stuff!!

First the bridge. Thanks Dan. You nailed the Avon River Bridge identification. There can be no doubt. Now my question for all is: what are the building at the end of the bridge road?

OK. Over to the Springfield stuff. I read that same article the day before and even put the link on the NOTDAR category but I'll be darned if I read that the same way you did. You picked up on the Middleton connection and I remember reading it but it didn't click that perhaps they actually did run a few engines down to Middleton from time to time. I also wondered how DAR people transitioned to the Springfield and this may be this missing link.

I also invited Colin Churcher to come take a look at the photos to get his take on it. Hopefully he'll take the time to look in and give us his 2 cents.

If we could defintely prove the link from Springfield to Middleton then I'd love to put all this in our private locomotive/railway section. Then If I could get Phillip Spencer to also contribute as he has the Springfield history down pat (http://users.eastlink.ca/~pspencer/nsaeta/davison.html).

Heck, I just talked myself into doing this right now. I'll create the Springfield railway in the private locomotive section and we'll work towards establishing what is an enevitable link. If by some change we find there is no link down the road, we'll deal with that issue then.

http://www.dardpi.ca/wiki/index.php?tit ... ld_Railway

So what thinks ye all to that?

PS. I want to see one of you guys scratch build the "Dinky". This is an awesome little loco.