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Revision as of 19:06, 5 April 2011
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 556 "Champdore" "Mount Denson"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0
- Originally Built as Class ST12, CPR No. 977, renumbered to CPR 556 and reassigned to D6b class in December of 1907.
Built by Sashsische Maschinenbau A.G., Chemnitz, Germany (Saxon Locomotive Machine Works) in February 1904.
- Builder No. 2843
- 20" x 26" cylinders (Changed from compound 22&33x26 in November 1913)
- 63" drivers
- 53' wheelbase length, engine and tender
- 63' 3" overall pilot to tender coupler
- CPR Class: D6d
In May of 1937, No. 556 was officially assigned to the D.A.R. She served just short of 10 years and was scrapped in March of 1947.
It is listed as a D.A.R. unit in both 1941[1] and 1947[2].
Name Origin: Champdoré, a carpenter in the settlement at Port Royal.
Name Change
The locomotive was later named "Mount Denson"[3], after the community near Hantsport but it is unclear based on photographic evidence (Gallery below) if it was ever lettered as Mount Denson.
Gallery
Cab of No. 44 & No. 556 in front of the Kentville Repair Shop in 1938.
No. 556 passing the CNR coaling tower at Truro.
On the Digby wharf in DAR livery. Date unknown.
No. 556 on the point of a derailment at North Range.
