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| + | Image:PH-56-25 First Excursion Train May 11th, 1875.jpg|[[:Category:Western Counties Railway|Western Counties Railway]] locomotive [[DAR0007|No. 2]], later [[DAR0007|DAR No. 7]], pulls the first excursion train out of Yarmouth on May 11, 1875. | ||
| + | Image:PH-56-12 The Second Locomotive, George Doane, Western Counties Railway.jpg|[[:Category:Western Counties Railway|Western Counties Railway]] locomotive [[DAR0007|No. 2]] in front of the [[Yarmouth Station]]. | ||
Image:DAR0007a.jpg|[[DAR0007|"Cornwallis"]] at Yarmouth. | Image:DAR0007a.jpg|[[DAR0007|"Cornwallis"]] at Yarmouth. | ||
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Revision as of 00:00, 27 September 2009
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 7, "Basil" or "Cornwallis"
Built by Portland Locomotive Works in September 1876.
- Builder No. 340
- 12" x 24" cylinders
- 60" drivers.
Charles McBride and J.B. King indicate that this locomotive was built for the Windsor and Atlantic as No. 7 Basil and became DAR No. 7 "Basil" in 1893.(1) (2)
Name Origin: The name came from the blacksmith character in Longfellow's poem Evangeline and was later carried by DAR Locomotive No. 36.
However Omer Lavallée, Jim O'Donnell and two collections at the Canada Science and Technology Museum identify it as Western Counties Railway Locomotive No. 2 "Charles B. Doane" which became DAR No. 7 in 1894 with the name "Cornwallis".(3)(4)
It was scrapped sometime before 1920.(3)
Name Origins: "Charles B. Doane" was a WCR manager. "Cornwallis" was Edward Cornwallis, the founder of Halifax.
Gallery
Western Counties Railway locomotive No. 2, later DAR No. 7, pulls the first excursion train out of Yarmouth on May 11, 1875.
Western Counties Railway locomotive No. 2 in front of the Yarmouth Station.
"Cornwallis" at Yarmouth.
References and Footnotes
(1) Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List
(2) J.B. King, "Windsor & Annapolis Railway Motive Power Presents Thorny Problems", Halifax Chronicle Herald, Sat. May 24, 1958, p. 20
(3) Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, p. 348.
(4) Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
(5) Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa
- McQuinn Collection, N-3971
- Stephens Collection, N-8340
