DAR0016

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 16 "Atalanta"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in March 1892.

• Builder No. 12544
• 17" x 24" cylinders
• 66" drivers.

This was built as Windsor and Annapolis Railway locomotive No. 14 "Atalanta" and became DAR No. 16 "Atalanta in 1894.

It was scrapped in July 1923.

Name Origin: Huntress in Greek mythology.

Gallery

Known Photographs:

• At Weston, driver Dan Deloughry, Harold Jenkins McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-3983
• Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-18232

References and Footnotes

Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"

Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List

Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348, 352

External Links

[Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, Colourized postcard of DAR No. 16 at Yarmouth, circa 1934]

Same image also found in Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, as a better quality original DAR promotional photograph, dated 1900 Acc# 1997-32, G.E. Lovett Collection.