Bridgetown, Tupperville, and Round Hill

[Paul Charland]

Hi All,

Finished another thirteen miles of the DAR to just north of Annapolis Royal, the end of the Kentville Sub, thought I'd post a few shots.

A ballast extra crosses the Annapolis River in Bridgetown.



After running around it's train in Tupperville, the ballast extra pushes it;s train across Highway 201. Once the train is tied up the engine will run light to Annapolis Royal to use the wye and return.



Train 2 runs north near Round Hilll passing one of many apple orchards in the Valley.



The RDC runs between Highway 201 and the Annapolis River between Round Hill and Tupperville.



Train 2 runs by the passing siding at Tupperville in the early afternoon on it's way to Halifax.



Paul

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Love it Paul! I have been to AR and back many times now. I like how you start on the other side of the bridge at AR too. Love going through from Middleton to Bridgewater. I used to drive that every day to work at the Bridgetown Monitor for a while. The Lawrencetown fair grounds are especially well done but from the tracks there are many more memorable sites too. That's a wicked angle crossing at Paradise isn't it? It's a real memory trip for me.

Going to do Windsor Jt. to AR this week sometime on the Dayliner.

Thanks again (and again...)

[Paul Charland]

Hi Steve and All,

Do you remember a cemetery down that way? I think it would be in the vicinity of Paradice on the north east side of the crossing. I'm sure when we were taking the bus to Cornwallis I saw one at a crossing but now can't find it on the satellite shots... maybe I imagined it?

The crossing just south of the Annapolis Royal station is on a serious angle too... but it's in!

Paul

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The only cemetery I remember is the one at the old Anglican church on the west end of Middleton. I looked on Bing maps though and found the Bridgetown cemetery which may be visible from the train tracks:

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=44.838 ... led%20item____

[Paul Charland]

Hi Steve,

Don't remember that one, might be further south, I'll have another look today.

Paul

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Here's the old Anglican church and cemetery in Middleton:
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=rgp3x3 ... orm=LMLTCC

Good street view:
https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=middleton ... 22,,0,2.71

Photo #3 shows the church quite well:
http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cem ... 20Cemetery

[Paul Charland]

Hi Steve,

The one I'm thinking of was in a wedge of land between the tracks and the highway. We were on the bus heading to Cornwallis for Chris' graduation the day after the fire at the Greenwood Shopping Center and we stopped to let someone off at the crossing, the cemetery was on the north east corner of the crossing.

Maybe I just hallucinated it, spent most of the night at the fire and the rest watching it from home... research!

Paul

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Found the Paradise cemetery. It's right by the level crossing in Paradise:
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=rgb4jn ... orm=LMLTCC

This site is how I located it and others too. It has a map tab:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cg ... id=2462224

I was there the night the Greenwood shopping centre burned down. It was the paint in the Canadian Tire store that really lit the place up. Quite the heat to melt all the steel beams.

[Paul Charland]

Hi Steve,

That must be the one, maybe those trees have gotten bigger over the years, don't remember that much cover being there.

I was there with a cast up to my crotch and crutches before Kingston arrived, when our guys from the base were there. There could have pumped the garage bays full of dry chemicals from Red 3 and put the fire out but Kingston would not give them permission. A month later when KFC went up one Sunday morning, Kingston didn't have a problem letting our guys start without them!

Paul

[Dan Conlin]

The Greenwood Mall fire! I remember seeing the smoking ruins the next day. All I could think of was the great aisle of plastic model kits in the department store there going up in smoke.
Great shots Paul. Lovely apple blossoms.

Dan

[Paul Charland]

The Met, there were people including firefighters in the restaurant just ten minutes before it caught fire. Took four minutes from the time it first flashed over to when the roof collapsed!

When we came back from Cornwallis, Chippie the taxi driver took us on a free tour around what was left.

Paul

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Why does that seem familiar to me? I mean a kid with a cast at the fire. Hmmm...

[Paul Charland]

Where you there behind Canadian Tire when a new fire department arrived and people started cheering! Me and my cast were front row center! Where you there when the firefighter went through the roof into the jewelry store? Saw him a month later with his arm in a cast running Kingston's tanker at the KFC fire. Remember the ammunition going off in the back of Canadian Tire and carving the big "V" out of the concrete wall? Have pictures of that!

Paul

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I remember the firefighter going through the roof. I was there but I sure don't remember the detail you do!

[Paul Charland]

I wanted to be a firefighter by then, this was a training session" for a guy like me!

Paul