Trainz DAR/CNR Halifax Sub Project ongoing

[DragonHeart]

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[DragonHeart]

I'm going take a brack for a bit were it's being summer and I'm really bussy now wont have much time The RS23s are getting a reskin job i"ll post screens of them ones there done.

[DragonHeart]

Leaveing Millers Creek

Crossing The St Croix River ( Chocolate River )

Passing The Fundy Gypsum Mind

Heading to Dartmouth


Old Windsor Station

[DragonHeart]

Looking for info on Nova Scotia Textiles Building form what I can see there a sideing that gose over to it but i don't see the rest of the sideing anyone know it the DAR served this building sometime in the past ?

[Paul Charland]

Just before the curve in the road was a small Irving outlet, they had six oil storage tanks near the St Croix River and were lettered to spell out I R V I N G ... one letter per tank. The track crossed the road and curved about 15 degrees away from the road and ended at Brockville Chemicals.

Oddly enough, Windsor Textile didn't have a siding, or at least nothing after the late sixties if ever. They did ship through the freight shed in LCL shipments.

Paul

[Ric]

Here is where the tank farm was

[Ric]

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[Paul Charland]

Here's what I'm thinking of, is it the same tank farm as you're thinking or Ric... would appear to have been modernized in your photo.



Paul

[DragonHeart]

This is what I got done not sure if this is close to the real spot or not but its good enofe for now.

[SamuelMClark]

I've been trying to find pictures of the Windsor Yard pre-Highway 101 because other then the general layout of what is there now not sure what went where. And as for that spur you see going towards where those old Oil Tanks were that's still there and when I walked the Truro sub last November you could see where it connected to the main line. I need to investigate that spur some more as there could still be a few ties buried in the ground.

In Gary's new book he has a few good pictures with different angles of the Windsor yard near the station that I want but I don't think there's anything that really shows off towards the Oil tanks. David might have some more photos with the Oil tanks in the back ground which might show the spur.

[DragonHeart]

Yea I plan on going up that way this spring ( if anythings stell there ) and complete my 2nd video toure but its going be a week long hike on the bike as soon as the snows gone I'll go up. I'll ask David about the pic he and I are in the same club.

WHRC Tonner heading to millers creek.

You can kindly see the old tanks in the background.

Here the sideing going up to the oil tanks


This is the oil tank farm I moved the sideing over abit to make room and had the sideing split off up a small hill to it and the rest went across the road to the warehouse 300m form the road.


I massed up on the scale here abit over throw the highway trainz works in 5 different scales so its harder to get it dead on.

[Paul Charland]

There was only one spur serving both Irving and Brockville Chemicals. Brock Chem was on the other side of the track, a rather simple looking gray warehouse with gable ends, 2 storey 24 x 128. Irving had no refinery type structures, just the storage tanks, a small storage building near on the north side of the crossing where they received lubricant oil in boxcars. There was also a small building just to the north west of the crossing for employees and a parking lot. Oil was shipped from their refinery in Saint John NB by sea, stored in these tanks, and distributed by truck.

Paul

[DragonHeart]

Thanks for the info Paul. I'm using buildings that I feel look closely to how you told me they shod look there not going to be exilty the same but I think this is looking more real ( hard to tell with out pitchers ).

[Paul Charland]

I understand about the buildings, I drew my own for the MSTS route. This looks a lot better with the single siding serving both customers. Is there a way you can place a second of those gray buildings end to end to make it look like one longer building for Brock Chem?

I think Irving's would have been served with a barge and tug... maybe someone else can say for sure.

Paul

[Dan Conlin]

Yes I am pretty sure Irving used tugs and barges. This spur by the way once kept going and served the Colonial Fertilizer Plant which was to the west of the tanks.
Anyone who wants to see the pre-101 tracks in Windsor should visit the Halifax Dept of Natural Resources. They have air photos back to the from the present day back to the 1930s and 40s.

Dan Conlin