RE: (rshsdepot) Re: Kentville NS Roundhouse destroyed

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

This type of thing enrages me


> [Original Message]
> From: <jp.underwood_@_ns.sympatico.ca>
> To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
> Date: 7/10/2007 7:43:52 PM
> Subject: (rshsdepot) Re: Kentville NS Roundhouse destroyed
>
> Despite pleas for more time to investigate sources for funding for its
restoration, the Town of Kentville Nova Scota tore down the historic
Dominion Atlantic Railway roundhouse Monday July 9, the last building of
its kind in Canada east of Montreal.
> The town had claimed it could not afford the money necessary to restore
the 24,000 square foot 1916 building, but at no time was a feasibilty study
conducted to determine what the cost might be, and at no time would council
consider delaying the demolition until volunteer groups like the Nova
Scotia Railway Heritage Society could find funding, which was available if
te town had designated the structure a heritage property.
> The roundhouse had originaly be targeted for restoration in a 2001
development plan, but that plan appears to have died with Mayor Gary Pearl
in 2005, and new Mayor David Corkum indicated he had no intention of saving
the building, which is to be removed to allow for as-yet unspecfified new
development.
> Jay Underwood
> Nova Scotia Railway Heritage Society
> Elmsdale NS
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> From Railfare-DC Books:
> http://www.railfare.net/From%20Folly%20to%20Fortune.html
> http://railfare.net/builtforwar.html
> Visit the Nova Scotia Railway Hall of Fame:
> http://www.nsrwyhalloffame.com/
> Visit the Nova Scotia Railway Heritage Society:
> http://novascotiarailwayheritage.com/
>
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