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 1935

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.