DAR000003

Dominion Atlantic Railway Coach No. 3 "Juno"

This wooden first class passenger car was built by Rhodes, Curry & Co. of Amherst, N.S. in 1893 for the Windsor and Annapolis Railway, just before the merger with the Western Counties Railway which created the Dominion Atlantic in 1894. Retaining the name "Juno", it became DAR No. 3. It was scrapped in Kentville 1937.

Gallery

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  Coach No. 3 Juno Builders Photo 1893.

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  Recruits in front of car No. 3 leaving for training from Yarmouth Station on Oct 15, 1915.

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

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Dominion Atlantic Railway Van No. 3.

This van was built by Rhodes Curry in Amherst probably about 1906.(1) It was later renumbered in the 90s series, sister to identical Rhodes Curry vans Nos 94, 96, 97 and 99.

Gallery

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  Van No. 3 with locomotive No. 26 about 1910

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Dominion Atlantic Railway Track Crane No. 3.

This small self-propelled steam crane was used in the Kentville Rail Yards to move coal and cinders with a clamshell scoop. It often appears in the background of yard photos. After the demise of steam in 1958, it was parked beside the Kentville Roundhouse until it was scrapped in the early 1960s.

Gallery

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  DAR No. 3 ashpit crane at Kentville on Mar 30, 1946.

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  Crane 3 behind Locomotive 26 on June 18, 1936 at Kentville.

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  Crane 3 in the background behind No. 2526 arriving at Kentville with Train No. 12 on August 27, 1956.

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  No. 8131 passing No. 3 parked beside the Kentville Water Tower in August 1959.

References and Footnotes

Canada Science and Technology Museum. F.V. Stephens Collection, Nos. 18289, 20510