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Rebuilt by with 12 x 24" cylinders in 1875 and traded to the [[:Category:Windsor and Annapolis Railway|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. | Rebuilt by with 12 x 24" cylinders in 1875 and traded to the [[:Category:Windsor and Annapolis Railway|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 "Minnehaha" in | + | Became DAR No. 6 "Minnehaha" in 1894. |
Name Origin: Minnehaha was the lover of "Hiawatha" in Longfellow's popular 1855 poem "Song of Hiawatha". | Name Origin: Minnehaha was the lover of "Hiawatha" in Longfellow's popular 1855 poem "Song of Hiawatha". | ||
Revision as of 21:53, 20 November 2008
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 "Minnehaha" in 1894.
Name Origin: Minnehaha was the lover of "Hiawatha" in Longfellow's popular 1855 poem "Song of 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
