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Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 6 "Minnehaha"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0
Built by Portland Works in 1866.
- Builder No. 63-64
- 12" x 22" cylinders
- 60" drivers.
Built for the Intercolonial Railway.
Rebuilt by with 12 x 24" cylinders in 1875 and traded to the Windsor & Annapolis Railway where it became W&A No. 9, part of a swap of nine standard gauge ICR locomotives for nine broad gauge W&A locomotives in a government plan to standardize gauges.
Became DAR No. 6 "Hiawatha" in 1893.
Name Origin: Longfellow's epic poem "Hiawatha".
Gallery
References and Footnotes
Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List
J.B. King, "Windsor & Annapolis Railway Motive Power Presents Thorny Problems", Halifax Chronicle Herald, Sat. May 24, 1958, p. 20
Known Photographs:
- McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-3969
- Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-18,225
