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* [[Gary W. Ness]] in [[Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway]] (Volume One) at end of [[Kingsport]] Wharf, circa 1911 on page 5.  
 
* [[Gary W. Ness]] in [[Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway]] (Volume One) at end of [[Kingsport]] Wharf, circa 1911 on page 5.  
 
* [[Gary W. Ness]] in [[Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway]] (Volume Two) in Windsor as W&A No. 10, circa 1891 on page 4.  
 
* [[Gary W. Ness]] in [[Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway]] (Volume Two) in Windsor as W&A No. 10, circa 1891 on page 4.  
* [http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=85897&lang=en Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, STR03978a], with Flying Bluenose near Bear River in 1912.
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* [https://ingeniumcanada.org/archives/details/STR-03978 Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, STR03978], with Flying Bluenose near Bear River in 1912.
 
* [https://ingeniumcanada.org/archives/details/STR-18230 Stephens Collection,  Canada Science and Technology Museum, Image STR18230a].
 
* [https://ingeniumcanada.org/archives/details/STR-18230 Stephens Collection,  Canada Science and Technology Museum, Image STR18230a].
  

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Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 12 "Kentville"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in June 1891.

  • Builder No. 11974
  • 17" x 24" cylinders
  • 66" drivers.

Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia in 1891, it was originally No. 10 on the Windsor and Annapolis Railway. It was the first "foreign" locomotive to run over the former Western Counties Railway in October 1 1894 when it pulled a special train of dignitaries to Yarmouth commemorating the occasion of the DAR take-over on October 1, 1894.(1)

It was destroyed by a fire on July 8, 1915 when the Kentville Roundhouse burned destroying No. 12 and No. 22.[1]

Name Origin: Kentville, the headquarters of the Windsor and Annapolis and the DAR.

Gallery

Other Known Photographs:

References and Footnotes

  1. "KENTVILLE HIT BY ANOTHER FIRE The D.A.R. Roundhouse and Engine Sheds Burned and Two Locomotives Destroyed", Digby Courier, July 9, 1915, Carl Riff Notes

(1) Gary W. Ness in Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume Two), page 4

Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"

Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List

Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348

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