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File:SGM-B0054.jpg|DAR [[DAR000016|Coach No. 16]] at Truro in 1946. | File:SGM-B0054.jpg|DAR [[DAR000016|Coach No. 16]] at Truro in 1946. | ||
Image:DAR24-16.jpg|Coach [[DAR000024|No. 24]] and [[DAR000016|No. 16]] at [[Kentville]] in August 1949. | Image:DAR24-16.jpg|Coach [[DAR000024|No. 24]] and [[DAR000016|No. 16]] at [[Kentville]] in August 1949. | ||
Revision as of 23:15, 9 September 2011
Dominion Atlantic Railway Coach No. 16, Josephine.
No. 16 was built as a First Class Coach by Rhodes, Curry & Co. in Amherst in 1904 and was a sister car to No. 17, "Madeleine".(1) One of the last of the DAR wooden passenger cars, "Josephine" ended its days as as storm window store behind the Kentville paint shop and was scrapped in March 1958.(2)
Specifications (3)
- Construction: Wood, closed vestibule
- Length over sills: 73' 10 1/2"
- Seating Capacity: 64 people
- Trucks: 6 wheel
Gallery
DAR Coach No. 16 at Truro in 1946.
References and Footnotes
- (1) "Dominion Atlantic Railway Chronology of Passenger Car Purchases", Library and Archives Canada, Merrilees Collection, MG 31 NA A10, Vol. 55-4
- (2) Harold Jenkins, Letter Feb. 17, 1958, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, RG28 Series S, Vol. 186
