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(newest | oldest) View (newer 50 | older 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- 20:29, 19 May 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Windsor 1941 Sheet4.jpg (Windsor Fire Insurance Map, Sheet 4, showing spurs for the Windsor Supply Company and the Eastern Lime Company, by the road bridge over the Avon River. The original map was made in May 1934 and updated to July 1941. Note: Fire insurance plans provide detailed information on structures and approximate information on track layout. See the railway's Track Charts for precise information on track switches and siding. Courtesy [[:Ca...)
- 20:21, 19 May 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Windsor 1941 Sheet3.jpg (Windsor Fire Insurance Map, Sheet 3, showing the tracks through downtown Windsor and parts of the Windsor Wharves on the Avon River. The original map was made in May 1934 and updated to July 1941. Note: Fire insurance plans provide detailed information on structures and approximate information on track layout. See the railway's Track Charts for precise information on track switches and siding. Courtesy [[:Category:Irvin Le...)
- 20:08, 19 May 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Windsor 1941 Sheet2.jpg (Windsor Fire Insurance Map, Sheet 2, showing the area around the Windsor Station with the Windsor Freight Shed, part of the Windsor Railyard, the L. A. Armstrong Apple Warehouse and the B. Sexton Apple Warehouse. The original map was made in May 1934 and updated to July 1941. Note: Fire insurance plans provide detailed information on structures and approximate information on track layout. See the railway's [[:Category:Track_Charts|Track Chart...)
- 07:22, 19 May 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Windsor 1941 Sheet1.jpg (Windsor Fire Insurance Map, Sheet 1, an overall view of Windsor providing a guide to areas covered by individual map sheets as well as the route of the DAR mainline through Windsor. Note the location of the Windsor Enginehouse. The original map was made in May 1934 and updated to July 1941. Note: Fire insurance plans provide detailed information on structures, but only approximate information on track layout. See the railway's [[:Category:Track_Chart...)
- 21:27, 18 May 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Leopold001.jpg (Windsor Fire Insurance Map, Sheet 1, showing the map plan of areas covered by individual sheets and the route of the DAR mainline through Windsor. Note the location of the Windsor Enginehouse, original map May 1934 with updates to July 1941. Note: Fire insurance plans provide detailed information on structures, but only approximate information on track layout. See the railway's Track Charts for precise information on tracks...)
- 16:25, 18 May 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Whiskeyteller.jpg (An eastbound DAR passenger train at Annapolis Royal making a stop at the Annapolis Royal Station circa 1920 with the freight shed. The storage tank in the Imperial Oil Bulk Plant in the background is lettered for "Premier Gasoline". The long storage building to the left of the tank was the old W&AR Annapolis Royal Enginehouse. Note the piping and vents for the Pintsch gas lighting system on the coach roofs. Phot...)
- 08:22, 14 May 2024 Downeastrailfan talk contribs uploaded File:1985.BrazilLake.jpg (Passenger shelter at Brazil Lake on May 27, 1985. Don Jilson photo. *Matthew Keoughan collection Category:Matthew Keoughan Collection)
- 15:37, 13 May 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Kalkman101.jpg (Opening of the Midland Line probably at the South Maitland Station with passenger car No. 6, 1905. Inscription on front: "Opening of Midland 1905" Photo courtesy Tony Kalkman, featured on a [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DARDPI.ca/posts/1849054102129677/ Dominion Atlantic Railway Facebook post, March 9, 2023]. Category:Tony Kalkman Category:Steam Gallery)
- 19:22, 11 May 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Kalkman100.jpg (Deep Brook Station, undated, circa 1900. Photo courtesy Tony Kalkman, featured on a [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DARDPI.ca/posts/2112672035767881/ DAR-DPI.ca Facebook post, April 30, 2024]. Category:Tony Kalkman)
- 12:55, 11 May 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Kalkman099.jpg (Smith's Cove Station, in later years when it was converted to "The Bon-E-Lass" Restaurant, from the George Parks Collection, Nov. 18, 1962. Print is inscribed "D.A.R. Smith Cove N.S. Nov. 18/62 former sta. here col.G. Parks." Photo courtesy Tony Kalkman, featured on a [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DARDPI.ca/posts/2013436392358113/ DAR-DPI.ca Facebook post, Dec. 3, 2023]. Category:Tony Kalkman [[Category:George Parks...)
- 12:27, 11 May 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Kalkman098.jpg (Fireman Gerry Parks in locomotive No. 2209 on DAR's last steam passenger train, a Hockey extra to Halifax, photographed by brakeman Frank Nichols, March 12, 1960. Photo courtesy Tony Kalkman, featured on a Facebook post on the [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DARDPI.ca/posts/1910081892693564/ on the Dominion Atlantic Railway (DARDPI) Group, June 15, 2023]. Category:Tony Kalkman)
- 07:34, 11 May 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Kalkman097.jpg (Dominion Atlantic locomotive No. 25 "Strathcona" with a freight train, circa 1904. Possibly Strathcona’s first official run given the officials posing beside it. J. Tweedie MacGlashen possibly the man with hand on hip behind the cab on the left. Photo courtesy Tony Kalkman, featured on a Facebook post on the [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DARDPI.ca/posts/2095765334125218/ on the Dominion Atlantic Railway (DARDPI) Group, April 5, 2024]. [[Category:Ton...)
- 14:59, 30 April 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:202301354.jpg (DAR [[DAR0015|locomotive No. 15 "Annapolis" with passenger train and two crew at unknown location, photographed by John A. Irvine, circa 1895. Nova Scotia Archives cataloguing information: Two men on steam train locomotive, Dominion Atlanic Railway Photographer: John A. Irvine Fonds: J.A. Irvine Reference no.: J.A. Irvine Nova Scotia Archives Album 37 number 75 ''Courtesy of Nova Scotia Archives'' =External Links= *[https://archives.novascotia.ca/irvine/archives/?ID=354 Link to zooma...)
- 17:18, 27 April 2024 Sarah Taylor talk contribs uploaded File:CRMW1920OctP545a.jpg (Title: Canadian Railway and Marine World <br> Date: October 1920<br> Page: 545<br> Identifier: oocihm.8_06968_99<br> Collection: Periodicals, Serials: Periodicals, Annuals and Newspapers <br> URL: https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06968_99 <br>)
- 17:17, 27 April 2024 Sarah Taylor talk contribs uploaded File:CRMW1920AprP175a.jpg (Title: Canadian Railway and Marine World<br> Date: Aptil 1920<br> Page: 175 <br> Identifier: oocihm.8_06968_93<br> Collection: Periodicals, Serials: Periodicals, Annuals and Newspapers <br> URL: https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06968_93 <br>)
- 17:16, 27 April 2024 Sarah Taylor talk contribs uploaded File:CRMW1919DecemberP655a.jpg (Title: Canadian Railway and Marine World <br> Date: December 1919<br> Page: 655<br> Identifier: oocihm.8_06968_89<br> Collection: Periodicals, Serials: Periodicals, Annuals and Newspapers <br> URL: https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06968_89 <br>)
- 17:15, 27 April 2024 Sarah Taylor talk contribs uploaded File:CRMW1918SepP390a.jpg (Title: Canadian Railway and Marine World <br> Date: September 1918<br> Page: 390<br> Identifier: oocihm.8_06968_74<br> Collection: Periodicals, Serials: Periodicals, Annuals and Newspapers <br> URL: https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06968_74 <br>)
- 17:14, 27 April 2024 Sarah Taylor talk contribs uploaded File:CRMW1918NovP488a.jpg (Title: Canadian Railway and Marine World <br> Date: November 1918<br> Page: 488<br> Identifier: oocihm.8_06968_76<br> Collection: Periodicals, Serials: Periodicals, Annuals and Newspapers <br> URL: https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06968_76 <br>)
- 17:14, 27 April 2024 Sarah Taylor talk contribs uploaded File:CRMW1918DecP541a.jpg (Title: Canadian Railway and Marine World <br> Date: December 1918<br> Page: 541<br> Identifier: oocihm.8_06968_77<br> Collection: Periodicals, Serials: Periodicals, Annuals and Newspapers <br> URL: https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06968_77 <br>)
- 17:12, 27 April 2024 Sarah Taylor talk contribs uploaded File:CRMW1917JanP24a.jpg (Title: Canadian Railway and Marine World <br> Date: January 1917<br> Page: 24<br> Identifier: oocihm.8_06968_54<br> Collection: Periodicals, Serials: Periodicals, Annuals and Newspapers <br> URL: https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06968_54 <br>)
- 15:18, 27 April 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:201306736.jpg (Vian Andrews, Christmas tree harvester and buyer, from North Range checking trees being loaded in the CPR box car at Bear River Station for shipment to Bronx terminal, New York City , photographed by John Collier Jr., November 1950. [https://archives.novascotia.ca/collier/archives/?ID=1536 Link to original record with zoomable image] ''Courtesy of Nova Scotia Archives''<br> Title: Vian Andrews, Christmas tree harvester and buyer, of North Range,...)
- 15:06, 27 April 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:201306741.jpg (Loading Christmas Trees at the Bear River Station for shipment to Bronx terminal, New York City , photographed by John Collier Jr., November 1950. Note Bear River Section House in distance. Link to original record with zoomable image ''Courtesy of Nova Scotia Archives''<br> Title Christmas trees being loaded into box car for shipment to Bronx terminal, New York City. Bear River, CPR Station...)
- 20:51, 26 April 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:201309570.jpg (SS ''Princes Helene'' at the Digby Wharf, with wharf siding full of CPR box cars and Norwegian freighter loading lumber, photographed by John Collier Jr., September 1951. [https://archives.novascotia.ca/collier/archives/?ID=4369 Zoomable image at the Nova Scotia Archives website] '''Courtesy of Nova Scotia Archives'''<br> John Collier Jr. - Photographer, Digby County<br> The Government Wharf. The Princess Helene is tied up to...)
- 20:29, 26 April 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:201307156.jpg (The DAR line with an embankment and cutting at Bear River just west of the Bear River Bridge with the Bear River Lighthouse in background, taken by John Collier Jr., December 1950. The ruins of the [[Clarke Brothers Pulp Mill] in the background. [https://archives.novascotia.ca/collier/archives/?ID=1956 Web page with zoom-able image at the Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management] Nova Scotia Archives description: Photographer: [[:Category:Jo...)
- 19:02, 26 April 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:201307157.jpg (The Bear River Bridge, taken by John Collier Junior, December 1950. The bridge tender's sheds can be seen either side of the bridge with the ruins of the [[Clarke Brothers Pulp Mill] in the background. [https://archives.novascotia.ca/collier/archives/?ID=1957 Web page with zoom-able image at the Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management] Nova Scotia Archives description: Photographer: John Collier Jr. Reference: Alexander H. Leighton Nova Scotia Archives 1988-413 negative number 24...)
- 16:21, 20 April 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:DAR - Service Car 405809 Former Sleeper Aylmer B - Kentville - 2October1960.jpg (boarding car No. 405809 (Ex CPR sleeper "Aylmer" and former DAR boarding car No. 879) at Kentville with Kentville Coaling Tower and Kentville Sanding Tower in background, photographed by Harold Jenkins, October 2, 1960. Note detail of coaling tower hoist shaft and sairway. *Middleton Railway Museum Category:Middleton Railway Museum [[Category:Harold Jenkins...)
- 20:15, 19 April 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:DAR - Engine 1092 - Harold Jenkins Photo - Unknown Date Location.jpg (Locomotive No. 1092 at unknown location, probably Windsor or Truro with the engine deadheaded in a transfer coupled to a CN scale test car, photographed by Harold Jenkins, unknown date, likely early 1940s. No. 1092 appears to be in transit based on the covered headlamp and the removed driving rod can be seen resting on the running board. Note the fresh DAR livery and the repair to the exhaust pipe, compared to a 1942 photograph of this en...)
- 18:39, 30 March 2024 Stem talk contribs uploaded File:Kalkman095.jpg (Photo from George Warden family scrap book. Photo by Nat. Def.#2914. Year & date unknown. [https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1119645429457075&set=gm.2090720967962988&idorvanity=837234553311642 Facebook DARDPI.ca group post 2024-03-29. Category:Tony Kalkman Category:UnknownPhotographer Category:IncompleteDateOrDescription)
- 06:56, 29 March 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:8291AA.JPG (Detail of a view from Fort Edward hill showing the Colonial Fertilizer plant in the background, circa 1920s and a construction train with a pile driver and MOW cars No. 859, formerly No.52 Baggage and No. 872, No. 36 Coach parked on a siding just behind. [https://archives.novascotia.ca/photocollection/archives/?ID=8291 Link to Zoomable Image at the Nova Scotia Archives website: https://archives.novascotia.ca/mccully/archives/?ID=24] ''Courtesy of Nova Scotia...)
- 21:21, 23 March 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:ColonialFertilizer 1920.jpg (Panoramic photograph from the West Hants Historical Society collection showing the workers of the Colonial Fertilizer Plant in front of their loading dock with a Pere Marquette Railroad boxcar, photographed by Harry Reid, 1920. ==References== [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DARDPI.ca/posts/2086601198374965/ Today’s photo, Facebook Post West Hants Historical Society, July 22, 2021] <references/> [[...)
- 20:26, 23 March 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:DAR plan Windsor 1955-01 enhanced.jpg (Survey plan of the Halifax Subdivision alignment and right-of-way through Windsor. The plan extends from the Wentworth Road level crossing at mile 30.81 (map inset) to the southeast abutment of the Avon River Bridge at mile 32.24. The plan shows sidings and spurs, crossing signal details and the location of key structures, including the: Station & Baggage Shed (old station), Freight Shed, [[Windsor Railya...)
- 19:54, 23 March 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:ColonialFertilizer.jpg (Engraving from the West Hants Historical Society collection showing an artists impression of the Colonial Fertilizer and Colonial Hides Plants, circa 1950. ==References== <references/> Category:West Hants Historical Society Category:IncompleteDateOrDescription)
- 18:36, 23 March 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Kalkman094.jpg (DAR tracks at [Windsor]], looking northeast from Fort Edward showing the Colonial Fertilizer plant in the background and a MOW cars No. 859, formerly No.52 Baggage and No. 872, No. 36 Coach parked on a siding on the Midland/subdivision, with the location of the 2nd [[Windsor Enginehouse in front of them and tracks of the [[:Category:Subdivision Halifax|Halifax Subdivision in the foreground, circa mid 1930s. Photo courtesy [[:Cat...)
- 16:53, 19 March 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Maclean002.jpg (The tender of Dominion Atlantic Railway locomotive No. 2526 at the Kentville Machine Shop, with the DAR blacksmith shop and chimney in background, taken by an unknown photographer, circa 1953-1957. Note the rare example of a "backward-facing" Evangeline herald. Shared in comment by Dave MacLean on [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DARDPI.ca/posts/2083494965352255/ March 18, 2024 Facebook Post on Dominion Atlantic Railway DAR.DPI Group Post...)
- 06:23, 17 March 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Kalkman092.jpg (Dominion Atlantic locomotive No. 43 hauling Train No. 98, at the Digby Wharf with engineer Harry Ward at centre examining engine trouble and wharf agent McBride on the right, with the SS Princess Helene in distance, undated, circa 1930s, after ''Prince Helene's'' arrival in 1930. Inscription on back: " H. Ward #98 on Digby wharf. Had some trouble under engine. Wharf agent Fred Mc.Bride at far right." Photo quality adjusted by [[:Ca...)
- 07:27, 16 March 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Kalkman092.jpg (Dominion Atlantic locomotive No. 43] ]hauling [[Train No. 98, at the Digby Wharf with engineer Harry Ward on left examining engine trouble and wharf agent McBride on the right, with the SS Princess Helene in distance, undated, circa 1930s, after ''Prince Helene's'' arrival in 1930. Inscription on back: " H. Ward #98 on Digby wharf. Had some trouble under engine. Wharf agent Fred Mc.Bride at far right." Photo quality adjusted by [[:Categ...)
- 13:25, 9 March 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Kalkman089.jpg (Dominion Atlantic locomotive No. 23 "Regina" at the platform of the station in Windsor with a westbound passenger station and an early DAR Van on the next track, circa 1910. Photo courtesy Tony Kalkman, featured on a Facebook post on the [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DARDPI.ca/posts/1863566020678485/ on the Dominion Atlantic Railway (DARDPI) Group, April 2, 2023]. Category:Tony Kalkman [[Category:UnknownPho...)
- 10:39, 9 March 2024 Stem talk contribs uploaded File:Bear River Bridge Centre Span Circa 1968.jpeg (From a video filmed around 1968 this is a close up at low tide of the centre span that turned once upon a time when sailing ships went up the river to Bear River. *NSRHS Collection *No definite Date *Photographer unknown)
- 08:28, 9 March 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Kalkman093.jpg (DAR Inspection Car at Windsor, a 1938 Maclaughlin Buick with Dominion Atlantic locomotive No. 1092 in background, circa 1940s, shortly after No. 1092's arrival in 1940 as the headlight is still on the top of the boiler. Photo courtesy Tony Kalkman, featured on a Facebook post on the [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DARDPI.ca/posts/1850736941961393/ on the Dominion Atlantic Railway (DARDPI) Group, March 12, 2023]. [[Cat...)
- 07:31, 9 March 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Kalkman091.jpg (Dominion Atlantic locomotive No. 37, engineer Harry Ward with Train No. 98, at the Digby Wharf with the SS Princess Helene, undated, circa 1920s. Inscription on back: "H. Ward on Digby wharf #98, eng # 37." Ship, "Princess Helene." Photo courtesy Tony Kalkman, featured on a Facebook post on the [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DARDPI.ca/posts/2041824262852659/ on the Dominion Atlantic Railway (DARDPI) Group, January 15, 2024]...)
- 21:32, 8 March 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Kalkman090.jpg (Dominion Atlantic locomotive No. 37 at Mount Uniacke, May 2, 1927. Photo courtesy Tony Kalkman, featured on a Facebook post on the [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DARDPI.ca/posts/2041824262852659/ on the Dominion Atlantic Railway (DARDPI) Group, January 15, 2024]. Category:Tony Kalkman Category:Unknown Photographers)
- 07:34, 2 March 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Gertridge10.jpg (DAR locomotive No. 28 and an unknown 4-4-0 shunting cars in the Kentville Railyard beside the P. R. Ritcey store with the Kentville Station in the background, March 1916, from the Chris Gertridge's Collection. Originally posted in: [https://www.facebook.com/gertridge/posts/pfbid0vVeUZLvJNFiDwR34Yxn9dufQPKYMJjQG3sjrnSLzdnt4WN4RqnRHNBANZ3kJWiw4l March 1, 2024 Facebook Post by Chris Gertridge] [[Category:Chris Gertridge Collectio...)
- 07:24, 2 March 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:FB Mar 1 2024.jpg (DAR locomotive No. 28 and an unknown 4-4-0 shunting cars beside the P.R. Ritcey store with the Kentville Station in the background, March 1916, from the Chris Gertridge's Collection. Originally posted in: [https://www.facebook.com/gertridge/posts/pfbid0vVeUZLvJNFiDwR34Yxn9dufQPKYMJjQG3sjrnSLzdnt4WN4RqnRHNBANZ3kJWiw4l March 1, 2024 Facebook Post by Chris Gertridge] Category:Chris Gertridge Collection [[Category:UnknownPhotograp...)
- 06:10, 25 February 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Kalkman088.jpg (The Digby Wharf with freight dollies being unloaded from the SS Princess Helene, with circa 1950, with CPR Refrigerator Car on the left, CN Boxcar 409933 at centre and Dominion Atlantic boxcar No. 69782 on the right. Photo courtesy Tony Kalkman, featured on a Facebook post on the [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DARDPI.ca/posts/2008773876157698/ on the Dominion Atlantic Railway (DARDPI) Group, November 24, 2023]....)
- 13:10, 18 February 2024 Stem talk contribs uploaded a new version of File:Halifax Schedule Board July 18 1967.jpg
- 18:30, 16 February 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Inspection Car Windsor Station.jpg (Dominion Atlantic Railway Inspection Car M-107 and the Buffet-Parlour car No. 6616 at the Windsor Station, taken by an unknown photographer, circa 1956. Source: [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DARDPI.ca/posts/2061172944251124 Facebook Feb 12, 2024 Facebook Post on Dominion Atlantic Railway DAR.DPI Group Post] by Andrew Blackburn. Unknown Photographer Category:Steam Gallery [...)
- 18:07, 16 February 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Inspection Parlour Windsor.jpg (Dominion Atlantic Railway Inspection Car M-107 and the Buffet-Parlour car No. 6616 at the Windsor Station, taken by an unknown photographer, circa July 1954. Source: [https://www.facebook.com/groups/DARDPI.ca/posts/2061172944251124 Facebook Feb 12, 2024 Facebook Post on Dominion Atlantic Railway DAR.DPI Group Post] by Andrew Blackburn. Unknown Photographer [[Category:Steam Gallery]...)
- 20:53, 15 February 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Inspection car fruit express.jpg (Dominion Atlantic Railway Inspection Car M-107 at Windsor passing Fruit Express car No. 4626 preparing to leave Windsor for Halifax with the Windsor Water Tower in the background, photographed by an unknown photographer, roughly July 1954. Photo shares similarities with [[https://www.facebook.com/groups/DARDPI.ca/posts/2058555854512833 [[https://www.facebook.com/groups/DARDPI.ca/posts/2058555854512833/Facebook Face Post on Dominion...)
- 17:23, 13 February 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:West End April 1975.jpg (Kentville Station April 1975 showing the west end of the station and DAR MOW motor vehicles.<br> Unknown Photographer Category:UnknownPhotographer)
- 17:10, 10 February 2024 Dan Conlin talk contribs uploaded File:Comeau010.jpeg (Louis Comeau collection<br> The DAR's SS Prince Edward in Yarmouth at the DAR's Yarmouth Wharf with a square rigger, two schooners and a tug in the background. Date and photographer unknown. Probably taken soon after the steamer arrived in service in 1897. Category:Louis Comeau Collection Category:Unknown Photographer Category:IncompleteDateOrDescription)