Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 2552 "Haliburton"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-2

Built Canadian Pacific's Angus Shops, Montreal in March 1909.

22.5" x 28" cylinders
70" drivers.
64' 6" wheelbase length
75' 8" over couplers
CPR Class: G2s

Built by the Canadian Pacific's Angus Shops in 1909, 2552 was the first 4-6-2 Pacific to serve on the D.A.R. The locomotive arrived on the D.A.R. in October 1936.(1) In July 1937, it was lettered for the Dominion Atlantic and given the name "Haliburton" along with a cast brass name plate.(2) No. 2552 was officially transferred to the DAR in 1937, first showing up as D.A.R unit on M.P. 14 1938 and listed as a D.A.R. unit way through to 1950. The locomotive reverted to CPR lettering in World War Two, but photographs indicate that it again received a DAR lettering and herald between 1949 and 1950. From 1952 to 1955 it was still listed but as a C.P.R. unit in the M.P. 14s. It had earlier served on another CPR subsidiary, the Montreal and Atlantic and was listed as such in 1927.(3) It was scrapped in July 1956.(4)

Name Origin: Thomas Chandler Haliburton, noted Nova Scotian writer of the 19th century and Windsor resident, author of Sam Slick novels and provincial history. Earlier used by DAR No. 37.

Operational Appearances

1940-01-05-0834 - Train No. 96

Gallery

Locomotive No. 2552 at the Kentville Station, newly arrived Nov. 1936.
No. 2552 just after its arrival in Kentville, April 1937.
Locomotive No. 2552 posed at Kentville, April 1937.
Locomotive No. 2552 leaving Kentville with passenger train, Kentville Station in background and P. R. Ritcey warehouses to right, April 1937.
The Five Locomotive Line-up, Side View, of locomotives No. 2552, No. 999, No. 544, No. 32 and No. 25 posed in the Kentville Railyard, May 14, 1937.
The Five Locomotive Line-up, Head-On View, of locomotives No. 2552, No. 999, No. 544, No. 32 and No. 25 posed in the Kentville Railyard, May 14, 1937.
Article on naming and DAR colours for No. 2552 by George Bishop, The Advertiser, Kentville, July 22, 1937.
No. 2552 at Kentville leading Train No. 98 on Sept.10, 1937. Mail car is most likely No. 3713
DAR No. 2552 "Haliburton" leaving Halifax station, still from motion picture, 1939.
DAR Locomotive 2552 in Halifax in 1939.
Haliburton, No. 2552 at Halifax in July of 1939.
Locomotive No. 2552 on the Kentville Turntable with the Machine Shop and the Boiler Plant in background, circa 1942.
Locomotive No. 2552, Kentville, Nova Scotia, ca. 1943.
No. 2552 at the Truro Roundhouse on June 22, 1944.
Believed to be locomotive 2552 with Earl McLeod and possibly James D. Smith, circa 1945.
Locomotive 2552 at an unknown location.
Bridgetown Station and locomotive No. 2552 with an eastbound train, 1949.
No. 1040 and Train No. 96 meets Train No. 95 led by No. 2552 with mail car No. 3713 at Windsor, August 1949.
Yarmouth mail Train No. 95 at Windsor Station in Windsor led by No. 2552 in August 1949.
Yarmouth mail Train No. 95 at Windsor Station in Windsor led by No. 2552 in August 1949.
At Truro, May 5, 1950.
Locomotive No. 2552 and tank car in a minor mishap at Yarmouth, Aug. 8, 1950.
Detail of Locomotive No. 2552 and tank car in a minor mishap at Yarmouth, Aug. 8, 1950.
Train No. 95 pulled by Locomotive No. 2552 crossing the Bear River Bridge with the ruins of the Clarke Brothers Pulp Mill to right, circa 1950.