DAR000031

Dominion Atlantic Railway Combine (Baggage Smoking) No. 31, "Daphne".

No. 31 was was built in 1890 by James Harris & Co. and a near sister car to No. 32.(1) It was at first leased to the Cornwallis Valley Railway as Car No. 3, the CVR's only piece of passenger equipment.(2) It continued to be used on Kingsport trains for many years after the DAR bought the CVR. Somewhat unusually, it had a baggage compartment in the centre and is easily spotted in old photographs. It was scrapped in December of 1946.(1)

Specifications (3):

• Construction: Wood, open vestibule
• Length over sills: 57'(3) or 57'2" (4)
• Seating Capacity: 40 people
• Four wheel trucks

Gallery

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  Combine No. 24 (behind engine) and Combine No. 31 with Locomotive No. 12 in a detail of a Kingsport Wharf photo, c. 1911.

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  Detail, Kingsport Wharf, from the east with a DAR locomotive and the combine car No. 32 "Daphne", circa 1920.

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  Kingsport Wharf with MV Kipawo meeting a 4-4-0 locomotive pulling a passenger coach, Combine No. 31 and two boxcars, August 1936.

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  Dominion Atlantic combine No. 31, probably Digby, circa 1937.

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  Combine DAR No. 31 "Daphne" on March 30, 1946.

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  Combine No. 31 at Kentville

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  Combine No. 31 at Kentville, with the British Canadian Fruit Association Kentville warehouse in background and brickwork of the Kentville Ice House to right, unknown date.

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) Notes by George Parks on back of photo and Jim O'Donnell, "Dominion Atlantic Passenger Equipment"

• (3) 1941 Canadian Pacific Railway Summary Of Equipment, Form M.P. 14 - January 1, 1941, page 38.

• (4) January 1, 1947 CPR Motive Power Roster M.P. 14 at CPHA, p. 43.

External Links

• N-3977, McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa showing Locomotive No. 12, Combine No. 24 and Combine No. 31 (the end car), in this detail of a photo of the Kingsport Wharf, circa 1911, (full photograph in Ness Vol. I, page 5)