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* McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, [http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=84859&lang=en N-4019] (in Kentville), [http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=85683&lang=en N-4020] (in Digby). | * McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, [http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=84859&lang=en N-4019] (in Kentville), [http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=85683&lang=en N-4020] (in Digby). | ||
| − | * Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, [ | + | * Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, [https://ingeniumcanada.org/archives/details/STR-08357 STR08357] (in Kentville), [http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=637&lang=en N-18250] (in Windsor with DAR caboose). |
==References and Footnotes== | ==References and Footnotes== | ||
Revision as of 00:16, 27 May 2020
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 43 "Byng", "Nicholson"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0
Built Schenectady Locomotive Works, Schenectady, New York in November 1902.
- Builder No. 26764
- 20" x 26" cylinders
- 63" drivers.
- 54' 6 1/2" wheelbase length
- CPR Class: D6a
This locomotive was built as Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive No. 943, renumbered as CPR No. 517 in 1908.(1) It was transferred to the DAR in June 1923 and became DAR No. 43, "Byng" - named after Canada's Governor General at the time. By 1933 it had been renamed "Nicholson". It was scrapped in May 1940.
Name Origins:
- Viscount Byng of Vimy, Governor General of Canada 1920-1926
- Col. Francis Nicholson, leader of the British expedition which captured Acadia in 1710 and later Governor of Nova Scotia, the same name later used by DAR No. 555.
Gallery
No. 43 dockside at Digby.
Known Photographs:
- McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-4019 (in Kentville), N-4020 (in Digby).
- Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, STR08357 (in Kentville), N-18250 (in Windsor with DAR caboose).
References and Footnotes
(1) Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 258 & 348.
Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
