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Revision as of 10:18, 3 April 2024
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 385 "Grand Pre"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0
Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in September 1897.
- Builder No. 15477
- 19" x 24" cylinders
- 63" drivers.
- CPR Class: D4f
It was built as a Canadian Pacific Locomotive No. 385 and transferred to the DAR in 1923. It was assigned DAR No. 16 but the number was not applied.(1) It was scrapped in July 1933.(2)
Name Origin: Grand Pre, important Acadian settlement and home of Longfellow's fictional Evangeline character, later a DAR station and memorial park.
Gallery
No. 385 in Kentville.
No. 385 in Windsor.
No. 385, unknown location and date.
DAR locomotive No. 385 derailed at Kennetcook with CNR express car and DAR wrecking crane No. 801, Sept. 4, 1924.
Employees posing with No. 385 in Windsor on 4th June 1932.
Another version with the employees. See file for complete list of names.
Other Known Photographs
References and Footnotes
(1) Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
(2) Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348.
