DAR0031

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 31, "Truro"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by the Rhode Island Locomotive Works in September 1874.

• Builder No. 654
• 17 x 24" cylinders
• 68" drivers.

It was built for the Grand Trunk Railway as No. 301 and was renumbered GTR No. 421 in 1896. It was acquired from the Grand Trunk along with its identical sister GTR No. 420 by the Midland Railway which ran from Windsor to Truro and became Midland Railway No. 1 "Truro". The DAR acquired this locomotive along with Midland No. 2, Midland No. 3, and Midland No. 4 when the Midland Line was purchased in 1905. This locomotive became DAR No. 31 but kept its Midland name as "Truro". It was scrapped sometime before 1920.

Name Origins: Truro, eastern terminus of the Midland Railway.

Gallery

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  MRC Locomotive No. 1 on the South Maitland Bridge construction site.

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  Locomotive No. 31 at Canning Station with the Oyler apple warehouse under construction.

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  Slightly wider image of No. 31 at Canning Station

Known Photographs:

• Nick Mika, An Illustrated History of Canadian Railways, Belleville: Mika Books, 1972, page 137, (as DAR 31 at Canning).
• Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR18242, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/STR18242/ (same shot as in Mika book, at Canning)
• West Hants Historical Society Photo#65 (as Midland 1)

References and Footnotes

• Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
• Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, p. 348.
• Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List