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File:Kalkman24.jpg|Locomotive [[DAR0024|No. 24]] with an westbound passenger train crossing the [[Gaspereaux River Bridge]] in [[Horton Landing]], Aug 24, 1902.
 
Image:DAR0024a.jpg|La Tour, Locomotive [[DAR0024|No. 24]] in [[Kentville]].
 
Image:DAR0024a.jpg|La Tour, Locomotive [[DAR0024|No. 24]] in [[Kentville]].
 
File:McBride1page57C.jpg|DAR locomotive [[DAR0024|No. 24 "Latour"]] with DAR [[DAR000033|combine No. 33]], probably in [[Digby]], late 1930s.
 
File:McBride1page57C.jpg|DAR locomotive [[DAR0024|No. 24 "Latour"]] with DAR [[DAR000033|combine No. 33]], probably in [[Digby]], late 1930s.

Revision as of 09:20, 16 April 2023

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 24 "La Tour"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in May 1898.

  • Builder No. 15924
  • 18" x 24" cylinders
  • 66" drivers.

"La Tour" was the first locomotive ordered and delivered new for the DAR.

It was scrapped in Kentville in November, 1939.(1)

Name Origin: Charles Latour Governor of Acadia, 1638.

Gallery

Other Known Photographs:

The museum data says Builder Number: 1564, Builder Date: 1882, Class: A-5-L, Disposition: SC 1930, Drivers: 62

  • Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-15259 (This photo is the same as No. 24 above.)

References and Footnotes

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

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

Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348, 352

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