DAR0010

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 10 "Western"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Portland Works in July 1889.

• Builder No. 602
• 17" x 24" cylinders
• 62" drivers.

This was orginally Western Counties Railway locomotive No. 3 "Western". It became DAR Locomotive No. 10 in 1894 but retained it's WCR name.

DAR locomotive No. 10 derailed at Canning on November 9, 1912, injuring conductor, Augustus Wilbur Dickie of Canning and engineer Thomas William Hiltz.

It was scrapped sometime before 1920.

Name Origin: "Western", the region of Nova Scotia served by the WCR.

Gallery

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  "Western".

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  DAR locomotive No. 10

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  DAR locomotive No. 10 derailed in train wreck at Canning, Nov. 9, 1912.

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  Photo postcard of locomotive No. 10 in train wreck at Canning, Nov. 9, 1912.

References and Footnotes

Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"

Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348.

Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List

Known Photographs:

• Gary W. Ness in Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume Two) on page 5
• McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-3974
• Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, STR18228

External Links

• No. 10 - Canada Science and Technology Museum Image STR08342a.