Links

• Valley railway anniversary today: 24 years since last Dayliner
• Halifax History - Halifax in Black and White and Colour through the years.
• The Peerage, a site tracking the peerage of British Royalty. (Found while searching for D.A.R. Royal Charter)
• A massive page of links to railway web site at OKthePK.ca.
• Centerville Community Web Site
• DAR film featuring real steam operations from the Admiral Digby museum.
• Steam Locomotive Valve Gear
• "Steam Engine Valve Gear On The Computer" program.
• Leon Barron's collection to be archived at Acadia Universtity.
• The Tourism Industry in Nova Scotia, 1870-1970 P1.
• The Tourism Industry in Nova Scotia, 1870-1970 P2.
• Nova Scotia Rail Trails
• Canadian Rail Observations - Real time ranfanning.
• Robert Baron on Museum and Arts Computerization
• Robert Baron's Guides to Museum and Arts Computerization
• JSkinner's photos matching Google maps in the Canning area.
• Canadian Pacific to the East - The International of Maine Division

Equipment

• CPR Steam Roster & database.
• DAR Roster at ROCArchives
• Dominion Atlantic locomotive gallery on Old Time Trades web site including nice colour images of 2551
• Buffet-Parlour Cars at ROCArchives
• CPR Diesel Locomotive Roster
• CPR Freight Car Roster
• Trains Magazine, Freight Car Classifications
• Dayliners (Budd RDCs) at Yahoo Groups
• Dayliners (Budd RDCs) at Budd-RDC.org
• Bitmap Files of DAR RDCs
• Wisdom Archive notes on DAR motive power
• Warren Hiltz's Page on the Windsor & Hantsport
• Avroland Site - Rhodes Curry Co. of Amherst (Built the parlour cars Josephine and Evangeline for the DAR, became part of Canadian Car & Foundry)
• Trainweb.org Notes on Fox, Walker & Co. (They built the original 6 locomotives in 1868 for the W&AR)
• Steam Index Site has a history of Fox, Walker
• Trainweb.org page on Donald, BC (Specifically mentions Evangeline, Engine #1 as a 4-4-0)
• The Windsor & Hantsport Railway on RailFan.net
• Colin Churcher's Railway Pages (This links to Colin's Industrial locomotive pages in which ex-DAR equipment can be found.)
• Steam Locomotive Info List of Photos and Photographers
• Kingston Historical Society - DAR History (Mentions steam locomotive landing locations and names.)
• Barney & Smith builders info.
• Huge Photographic Roster - RR Picture Archives.

Structures

• Middleton Train Station - Memory Lane Railway Museum
• Annapolis Royal Train Station - Clean Annapolis River Project
• Windsor Train Station - Birthplace of Hockey Museum
• DAR Structures at ROCArchives
• Nova Scotia Railway Heritage DAR Stations Page
• Railway Station Historical Society - DAR Stations
• What To Do With Old Roundhouses - Case #1: The Toronto Roundhouse Heritage Park
• What To Do With Old Roundhouses - Case #2: Vancouver Roundhouse Community
• What NOT To Do With Old Roundhouses: The demolition of the Kentville DAR Roundhouse
• Mike's Apple Warehouse site.
• Mike's Apple Warehouse Map on Google.]

Historical

• Nova Scotia Provincial Museums and Organizations
  • Nova Scotia Museum
    • Nova Scotia Search
    • Nova Scotia Passage Museum Project
    • Nova Scotia Archway]
    • Collection X
    • Images Nova Scotia at The Nova Scotia Museum

• Nova Scotia Local Museums
  • Apple Capital Museum Society (A Berwick, NS museum with a selection of DAR exhibits and a DAR model railway in the works.)
  • Virtual Museum Canada - Admiral Digby Museum , DAR (Photos and history of structures and buildings in Digby as well as steamline ships and ferries.)
  • Remembering the Kentville Railyards at Kings County Museum
  • A. L. Hardy Photos at Kings County Museum (Really great photos of the early days including a few railway photos.)
  • The Joggins Railway (Are any of these locomotives ex-W&AR or DAR?)

• Other
  • Orders-in Council concerning the D.A.R.
  • Orders-in Council concerning the W&AR.
  • Huge list of Nova Scotia History resources.
  • Rootsweb - DAR History from the Berwick Register (Mentions steam locomotive names.)
  • New York Times Archives - Search on "Dominion Atlantic" (Some interesting articles from way back!)
  • Windsor & Annapolis Documents at Collections Canada
  • Dominion Atlantic Documents at Collections Canada
  • Timms and Howard Fonds at Collections Canada.
  • Kinsport History along with community information.

Corporate

• Dominion Atlantic Railway Traffic Rules and Regulations
• The Boykos Site - DAR Timetables
• Collections Canada Listing of Timetables

Model Railways

See also Merchandise category below.

• Modellers
  • Jim Taylor's Train Stop
  • Ric's Trains
  • Mike Gerrits Trains.
  • Michael's Model railroader pages. He's modelling the WHRC!
  • Tony & Bryan's N-Scale net site all about N scale.
  • Spookshow's N-Scale Encyclopedia
• Model Train Associations and Clubs
  • National Model Railroader Association
  • National Model Railroader Association (Canada)
  • Annapolis Valley Model Railway Club
• Modelling
  • Bachman "Big Hauler" G Sscale 10 wheeler.
    • G Scale Bachman 10 wheeler mods.
    • G Scale Bachman 10 versions.
    • YouTube Big Hauler.
    • YouTube Big Hauler.
    • Google up some more yourself on the subject.
• Model Layout Software
  • Anyrail
  • 3rd PlanIt 3D Software
  • XTrackCAD
• Digital Modelling (Microsoft Train Sim and Others)
  • Elvas Tower Digital Modelling Forums
  • Obo's MSTS Locomotive Catalogue
  • Open Rails Simulator - The Future of MSTS (we're running it now instead of MSTS!)
  • Activity generator for MSTS routes.
• Model Railroad Publication Web sites
  • TrainLife - Lots of old train modelling magazines.]

Searches

• Library and Archives Canada Search Engine
• Google: railway stations dominion atlantic
• Dalhousie Archives

Merchandise

• On line Gallery and Antiques Mall
• Search on eBay for Dominion Atlantic
• The Antique Picker - often has Railway stuff.

• Books
  • Jay Underwood's railway books and publishing company.
  • Wells Books in Liverpool NS
  • John W. Doull Bookseller in Halifax NS
  • B.R.M.N.A., Publisher of many fine railway books.
  • Biblio Search for DAR items.
  • Raildriver's Digitized Railway Reference Cyclopedias.
• Model Railway Manufacturers
  • Division Point's Canadian Page
  • RailFonts - From Tracks to Cabs
  • Carl's 2" Scale Locomotives.
  • Kanamodel Products.
  • Custom Finishing Models.
  • N Scale Resin Kits of CPR Wood Sided Rolling Stock.
  • DAR Decals available here at Black Cat Decals!
• Online Stores
  • Udisco
  • Modeller's Choice
  • Trainworld
  • Top Hobby
  • Otter Valley Railroad
  • CARM's list of Model Railway Shops

Miscellaneous

• Railway Glossary at Allen Railroad.com
• Turn of the century photos of Canada and the CPR.
• CPR Delorimier Shops and other interesting railway tidbits.
• Car Builder's Dictionary (1884)
• Classic Trains Magazine
• Canadian Anglo-Boer War Museum

Nova Scotiana

• The Black River Lake Blog
• Russel Crosby Guitars
• John MacDonald's Eclectic Scrap Book site. Has many railroad subjects as well as Nova Scotiana and Canadiana subjects.