DAR0027

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 27 "Canada"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in November 1903.

• Builder No. 23284
• 15" x 22" cylinders
• 62" drivers.

No. 27 "Canada" was built new for the DAR in 1903. It replaced No. 25 in hauling Trains 93 and 94 east of Kentville to Halifax.(1) On October 12, 1920, No. 27 was being driven by engineer Tommy Walsh and fireman Terence McCann in a double headed freight from Truro with No. 26 when both engines were wrecked after striking pigs or a cows at high speed at Lower Truro. Fireman Fred Yould on No. 26 was killed. The frame of No. 27 was buckled beyond repair and it had to be scrapped.

Name Origin: Dominion of Canada.

Gallery

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  No. 27 "Canada".

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  A double header wreck in 1920 at Lower Truro involving No. 26 and No, 27.

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  A double header wreck in 1920 at Lower Truro involving No. 26 and No, 27.

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  Lower Truro wreck on October 12, 1920 with locomotives No. 26 and No. 27.

Other Known Photographs:

• Mika Collection, Library and Archives Canada, http://mikan3.archives.ca/pam/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=3391253&
• McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-3997 (builders photo 1903). Also STR08350a
• Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-8351 (with bunting and crew at water tower) and N-18239 (with flatcars).

References and Footnotes

(1) J. B. King "Pigs Ditch 2 Engines, Kill Midland Fireman: Writers Discourse on DAR Old Timers", Halifax Chronicle Herald.

Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"

Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348, 352