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DAR0547
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 547, Champlain.
This locomotive is a class D6d built somewhere between 1902 and 1904 by Sashsische Maschinenbau A.G., Chemnitz, Germany (Saxon Locomotive Machine Works) and are often referred to as a "Saxon". Transferred to the D.A.R. from the C.P.R. in 1917, it was formally transferred to the DAR in May 1937 and scrapped in March of 1946.[1]
The name Champlain was previously on No. 520, a D6b which was numbered No. 38 between 1917 and 1923.
Known to be assigned in 1939 to engineer Cliff Hebert and operated regularly on Mixed Trains Nos. 99 and 100 on the daily fast freights between Halifax and Kentville.[2]
The locomotive appears on the 1941 roster as a D.A.R. unit but not the 1947 roster at all.[3]
Gallery
Locomotive No. 547 and crew including Harry Ward at Yarmouth, circa 1945.
Locomotive No. 547 at Yarmouth with crew, including engineer Harry Ward, circa 1945.
No. 26 with No. 547 at Digby with the Digby Water Tower, circa 1937.
Train No. 98 near Digby pulled by locomotives 556 and 547, December 23, 1938.
No. 547 at Windsor Station on Dominion Day (July 1, 1939).
No. 547 at Truro in 1939.
No. 547 at Truro on Oct 15, 1944.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ Jim O'Donnell, Dominion Atlantic Locomotive Roster
- ↑ Gary W. Ness, Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 1), p. 7
- ↑ C.P.R., M.P. 14 Motive Power Rosters, 1941, p. 15
External Links
No. 547 in Truro, 1939. Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR03449.
No. 547 in Windsor, July, 1939. Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR08393.
No. 547 in Truro, October 15, 1944. Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR08394.
