DAR0537

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 537 "Fronsac" "Evangeline"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0

Built by North British Locomotive Company at Glasgow. Scotland in December 1903.

• Builder No. 16051
• 21" x 26" cylinders
• 63" drivers
• 53' wheelbase length, engine and tender
• CPR Class: D6b

This locomotive started on the DAR as the Second No. 40. See DAR No.40 (2nd) for details of its earlier career. In May 1937, it was renumbered from DAR No. 40 to as DAR No. 537 as the DAR shifted to CPR style numbers. It was renamed "Fronsac", complete witha cast brass plaque with the name, and had the honour of carrying the "President's Special", a special train of CPR officials on a tour of the DAR on July 18, 1937.(1) No. 537 seems to have given up the name "Fronsac" to DAR No. 999 in 1938 and reverted to its old name "Evangeline". No. 537 went into the scrapline at Kentville in November 1939 and was scrapped in December 1939.(3) & (4)

Name Origin: Nicholas Denys, Sieur de Fronsac, merchant and colonial developer of Acadia in 1632.

Gallery

Other Known Photographs as DAR No. 537:

• McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-4045 (in Windsor).
• Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-8385 (in Windsor).

References and Footnotes

(1)Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, pages 258, 294, 348.

(2) Charles McBride Photo Album No. 1, page 14.

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

(4) M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, page 39.

• January 1, 1941 CPR Motive Power Roster M.P. 14 at CPHA, page 15.