CNR Nova Scotia

Hank Snow Home Town Museum

148 Bristol Avenue
Liverpool, NS

9/06/2013

Nearby is this replica water tank which is actually an RV dumping station! 9/06/2013

Canadian Northern station built c.1901 former Halifax & South Western.
Line abandoned 1993. French Village, NS

Musquodoboit Harbour Museum
and Nova Scotia Tourist Bureau.

7895 Highway 7
Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia

Canadian Government Railways completed the line from Woodside (outside Dartmouth) through Musquodoboit Harbour to Upper Musquodoboit 66.63 miles it was opened July 1, 1916. It would become part of Canadian National Railways (Dartmouth Sub.) with the last passenger (mixed train) service ending in 1960. The entire line was authorized to be abandoned August 28, 1983.

This impresive looking station was built in 1918.
Early years postcard view. Collection of R. L. Kennedy

Note: CPR (DAR) combine 3252 almost hides CN 78801 caboose.
3252 came from the George Warden Museum, Kentville, NS.
Warden was a DAR conductor who created his private railway museum.

CNR 2 acq. 1991 from Bowater Mersey Paper, Liverpool, NS.
ex CN 2/7551/7752 44-ton GE 28350 5/1947 John Bowser

ICR Orangedale, Cape Breton, NS.

Built 1886

Mile 41.2 Sydney Subdivision CNR.
Since October 1, 1993 Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia.

Orangedale Railway Museum
1428 Orangedale Rd.

Cape Breton & Central Nova Scotia freight hauled by three MLW

CN Orangedale

Aerial view of museum site. Business Car Terra Nova

Interior view of Station Agent's residence.

CN 55432 acq. 1993 Russell 1950

ORM 1 acq. 10/2000 50-ton GE 32531 4/1956
Ex Georgia Pacific, Point Tupper, NS
Nee Canada Cement, Zorra, ON

DEVCO (Cape Breton Development Corp.) 6006 acq. 10/2000 Nee S&L 6006 ECC 1940

CN 78513 acq. 1995 ex private. Nee CN/PSC 10/1943

Interior view caboose.