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Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 547, Champlain | Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 547, Champlain | ||
| − | According to Gary Ness on page 7 of "[[Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway]] (Volume 1)", this 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". | + | According to [[Gary W. Ness|Gary Ness]] on page 7 of "[[Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway]] (Volume 1)", this 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, No. 547 was scrapped by the D.A.R. in 1946. | Transferred to the D.A.R. from the C.P.R. in 1917, No. 547 was scrapped by the D.A.R. in 1946. | ||
Revision as of 14:29, 25 December 2007
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 547, Champlain
According to Gary Ness on page 7 of "Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 1)", this 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, No. 547 was scrapped by the D.A.R. in 1946.
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.
