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* Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-15296
 
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* Merrilees Collection, Library and Archives Canada, Glass Negatives, B-009398
 
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* M. Allen Gibson, ''Train Time'', Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 34 being scrapped Kentville Sept, 1937.
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(2) [[Omer Lavallée]], ''[[Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives]]'', page 348, 352
 
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(4) M. Allen Gibson, ''Train Time'', Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 34, 39
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(3) [[McBride, Charles|Charles McBride]] DAR Photo Album No. 1, page 16
 
(3) [[McBride, Charles|Charles McBride]] DAR Photo Album No. 1, page 16

Revision as of 22:20, 11 December 2008

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 23 "Regina", "Cornwallis"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in July 1896.

  • Builder No. 14966
  • 18" x 24" cylinders(1) 17.5" x 18" cylinders(2) May have had compound cylinders when built.
  • 66" drivers.

Ordered as Windsor and Annapolis Railway locomotive No. 18, it was delivered well after the 1894 merger lettered from the beginning as DAR No. 23 "Regina", later renamed "Cornwallis". It was the last surviving locomotive from the Windsor and Annapolis era and one of the last 4-4-0s on the DAR.

It was scrapped in Kentville in August and September, 1937 (3)(4).

Name Origin: Regina: Latin for Queen. Cornwallis: Edward Cornwallis, founder of Halifax.

Gallery

Known Photographs:

  • McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-3991, builders photo 1896
  • Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-15296
  • Merrilees Collection, Library and Archives Canada, Glass Negatives, B-009398
  • M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 34 being scrapped Kentville Sept, 1937.

References and Footnotes

(1) Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"

(2) Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348, 352

(4) M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 34, 39

(3) Charles McBride DAR Photo Album No. 1, page 16

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