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File:CSTM-STR04009a 001 aa cs.jpg|[[DAR0033|Locomotive No. 33]] with [[DAR435786|Van No. 435786]], location given as [[Canning]].
 
File:CSTM-STR04009a 001 aa cs.jpg|[[DAR0033|Locomotive No. 33]] with [[DAR435786|Van No. 435786]], location given as [[Canning]].
 
Image:DAR0033b.jpg|[[DAR0033|No. 33 “Glooscap”]] with [[DAR435786|Van No. 435786]], location given as [[Kentville]].
 
Image:DAR0033b.jpg|[[DAR0033|No. 33 “Glooscap”]] with [[DAR435786|Van No. 435786]], location given as [[Kentville]].
File:STR04010a 001 aa cs.jpg|No. 33 "Gloscap", location given as [[Kentville]], cropped version
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File:STR04010a 001 aa cs.jpg|No. 33 "Glooscap", location given as [[Kentville]], cropped version
 
 
 
Image:DAR0033c.jpg|[[DAR0033|“Glooscap”]] at Kentville in May 1929.
 
Image:DAR0033c.jpg|[[DAR0033|“Glooscap”]] at Kentville in May 1929.
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File:CSTM-MAT000548.jpg|[[DAR0033|No. 33 "Glooscap"]] at an unknown location, possibly Trurp.
 
Image:DAR 33 at Kentville July 1938.jpg|[[DAR0033|“Glooscap”]] in the scrap line at Kentville in July 1938.
 
Image:DAR 33 at Kentville July 1938.jpg|[[DAR0033|“Glooscap”]] in the scrap line at Kentville in July 1938.
  

Revision as of 20:06, 13 January 2014

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 33, Glooscap.

Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0

Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in November 1907.

  • Builder No. 32258
  • 19" x 24" cylinders
  • 63" drivers(1)
  • Class: 10-32-0

No. 33 was the last locomotive built for the Dominion Atlantic. It was built in 1907 by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia for the DAR and was identical to her sister No. 32 "Blomidon". No. 33 was damaged in a serious wreck near Hantsport in 1919.(2) After the CPR takeover which brought larger ten wheelers to the DAR, No. 33 and 32 were frequently used on the Kentville-Kingsport run pulling the School Trains.(3) No. 33 was put into storage in 1933 and scrapped in late October 1938(4)&(5)

Name Origin: Heroic spirtual figure of Nova Scotia's Mi'kmaq people

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References and Footnotes

(1) Omer Lavallée lists 60" drivers but the C.P.R., M.P. 14 Motive Power Rosters, 1938 lists 63" drivers.

(2) Photograph and notes in Leon Barron Collection.

(3) Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 1), Gary Ness (page 6)

(4) George Bishop "Railway Notes", Kentville Advertiser, Oct. 16, 1938.

(5) M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 10 (in Kentville, newly painted)

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