DAR0003

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 3 "Gaspereaux"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Kingston Locomotive Works in 1866.

• Builder No. 75
• 12" x 24" cylinders
• 62" drivers.

Began as Nova Scotia Railway No. 24. Later Intercolonial Railway No. 24.(1)

Rebuilt by Portland Works with 12 x 24" cylinders in 1875 and traded to the Windsor & Annapolis Railway where it became W&A No. 6, part of a swap of nine standard gauge ICR locomotives for nine broad gauge W&A locomotives in a government plan to standardize gauges.

The Jim O'Donnell and the Charles McBride list record that this locomotive became DAR No. 3 in 1894.(2)

However The history of the Kingston Locomotive Works indicates that W&AR No. 6 was off the roster by 1894 before it ever became a DAR locomotive.(3)

Name Origin: River crossed by the DAR at Horton Landing where Acadians boarded deportation ships. Also the name of a popular fish for New England anglers.

References and Footnotes

(1) J. B. King, "Windsor & Annapolis Railway Motive Power Presents Thorny Problems", Halifax Chronicle Herald, Sat. May 24, 1958, p. 20

(2)

• Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
• Charles McBride "Dominion Atlantic Railway I" Locomotive List

(2) Constructed in Kingston: A History of the Canadian Locomotives Companies 1854 to 1968 by Donald R. McQueen and William D. Thompson, No. 63-64, p. 166.