DARv3 Screenshots

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I looked at those two and just grabbed the one with a wider view. Thought that one was a crop of the other - couldn't find any particular detail that showed any movement that I could detect.

[Paul Charland]

The two shots appear to have been taken seconds apart from an aircraft. Your shot was square on looking at the parade square and drill hall, my shot shows them at an angle.

Paul

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There was a second shot that must have been a crop then because you're right - the two shots you've shown are just seconds apart because even all the single figures on the parade appear all in the same place.

[Paul Charland]

Hi Steve,

While looking for pictures of the naval gun at the gate yesterday I had a look through this page on the Cornwallis Museum site, along with a couple of dozen shots of the base it has a dozen aerial shots including the two we already have:

http://www.cornwallismuseum.ca/photo-ga ... -pictures/

Paul

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I went through those twice. Great photos! Never realized that there was a naval guns school there. Must have been a noisy neighborhood.

[Paul Charland]

Hi Steve,

Yes, bang bang! You just hoped they were pointing out to sea instead of the PMQ area!

Paul

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Kinda like Goose where we were just 1/4 mile dead behind the end of the runway. I got used to the booms and rattling windows as an entire squadron of F-102s or F-106s scrambled and kicked in their afterburners on take-off.

[Paul Charland]

I liked Goose, like a Cold War airshow every day. We were there in 1967, they had two Canso water bombers come in from Newfoundland to fight a forest fire one day, then it snowed the next day! We left on my brother Don's birthday, July 17th and it snowed overnight!

Paul

[Paul Charland]

Hi All,

Another few miles of the DAR Yarmouth Sub completed.

DAR train 1 enters Canadian Armed Forces property at CFB Cornwallis.



You could only board or detrain ay CFB Cornwallis if you were in uniform.



9059 is about to leave Base property.



Train 1 crosses over Deep Brook.



The short siding at Deep Brook was used to spot the odd car. Before the gypsum loading facility in Handsport was built there was a gypsum loading facility here that was used in the early winter when the loading facility north of Windsor was frozen over.



Bear River and on to Digby next.



Paul

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Cornwallis done! Nice! have you ever run into a nice higher detail photo of the gypsum loading at Deep Brook that's better than this one:

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

[Paul Charland]

I'm guessing this loading facility would have had to be on the left of the Google aerial shot, it's too squared off the not be man made. The passing siding is to the right in this shot, Shore Rd cuts through the two tracks.

This is the only shot I've seen of the loader at Deep Brook Steve, easily see where they got the design for the storage facility in Hantsport.

Paul

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Not any evidence anymore that there ever was a huge facility there except for the very straight shoreline.

[Paul Charland]

Yes, not sure why but when Google had new satellite shots of a lot of Nova Scotia they didn't just add them so you could still go back and look at the older shots, they just replaced them. Older shots might have reveled where the track might have come through the wooded area or something.

Paul

[Paul Charland]

Hi All,

I've been laying roads between Deep Brook to just outside of Digby for the last couple of days. I took a shot to share of Train 1 and 2 a few minutes from the Digby station stop that I don't imaging would ever have been seen in real life with all the trees in the way. Both Trains are heading in the same compass direction, about 265 degrees west. Train 1 in the foreground is 5.2 rail miles from train 2, 0.7 miles between the trains as the crow flies, and 100 feet above it.

Paul

[Tedsgrandson]

Great shots of Cornwallis and the Digby area! Thanks very much for sharing.

Jim Joyce