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Revision as of 19:22, 18 November 2017
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 24 "La Tour"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0
Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in May 1898.
- Builder No. 15924
- 18" x 24" cylinders
- 66" drivers.
"La Tour" was the first locomotive ordered and delivered new for the DAR.
It was scrapped in Kentville in November, 1939.(1)
Name Origin: Charles Latour Governor of Acadia, 1638.
Gallery
Locomotive 24 in the scrap line behind the Kentville Repair Shop with the Kentville Station in the background, circa 1939.
Other Known Photographs:
- No. 24 in scrapline at Kentville, Canada Science and Technology Museum, McQuinn Collection, N-3992, and Stephens Collection, Image STR03992a.
The museum data says Builder Number: 1564, Builder Date: 1882, Class: A-5-L, Disposition: SC 1930, Drivers: 62
- Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-15259 (This photo is the same as No. 24 above.)
References and Footnotes
(1) Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
(2) M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 39
Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348, 352
