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| − | File:Loco556Windsorwater.jpg|[[DAR0556|DAR locomotive No. 556]] watering at the [[Windsor Water Tower]] with the Windsor Wear textile factory and Colonial Fertilizer Plant. | + | File:Loco556Windsorwater.jpg|[[DAR0556|DAR locomotive No. 556]] watering at the [[Windsor Water Tower]] with the [[Windsor Wear]] textile factory and the [[Colonial Fertilizer]] Plant, circa 1920s. |
Image:Somerset train wreck.jpg|Somerset train wreck, with locomotives [[DAR0039|No. 39]], [[DAR0556|No. 556]] and snow plow [[DAR0004|No.4]], January 1923. | Image:Somerset train wreck.jpg|Somerset train wreck, with locomotives [[DAR0039|No. 39]], [[DAR0556|No. 556]] and snow plow [[DAR0004|No.4]], January 1923. | ||
Image:North range wreck.jpg|[[DAR0556|No. 556]] on the point of a derailment with [[DAR6109|No. 6109]] at [[North Range]], 1928. | Image:North range wreck.jpg|[[DAR0556|No. 556]] on the point of a derailment with [[DAR6109|No. 6109]] at [[North Range]], 1928. | ||
Revision as of 19:41, 23 March 2024
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 556 "Champdore" "Mount Denson"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0
- Originally Built as Class ST12, CPR No. 977, renumbered to CPR 556 and reassigned to D6b class in December of 1907.
Built by Sashsische Maschinenbau A.G., Chemnitz, Germany (Saxon Locomotive Machine Works) in February 1904.
- Builder No. 2843
- 20" x 26" cylinders (Changed from compound 22&33x26 in November 1913)
- 63" drivers
- 53' wheelbase length, engine and tender
- 63' 3" overall pilot to tender coupler
- CPR Class: D6d
No. 556 was assigned to the DAR in the 1920s but was not officially assigned to the DAR until May of 1937. She was scrapped in March of 1947. In January 1923, No. 556 rescued No. 39 from a snow plow wreck at Somerset.
The locomotive is listed as a D.A.R. unit in both 1941[1] and 1947[2].
Name Origin: Champdoré, a carpenter in the settlement at Port Royal.
Name Change
The locomotive was later named "Mount Denson"[3], after the community near Hantsport but based on photographic evidence (see Gallery below) it is unclear if it was ever lettered as Mount Denson.
Gallery
DAR locomotive No. 556 watering at the Windsor Water Tower with the Windsor Wear textile factory and the Colonial Fertilizer Plant, circa 1920s.
No. 556 on the point of a derailment with No. 6109 at North Range, 1928.
Cab of No. 44 & No. 556 in front of the Kentville Repair Shop in 1938.
Train No. 98 near Digby pulled by locomotives 556 and 547, December 23, 1938.
No. 556 at Truro on December 28, 1941.
No. 556 at Kingston on January 15, 1945.
No. 556 passing the CNR coaling tower at Truro.
On the Digby wharf in DAR livery.
No. 556 at Kentville.
HO Model of locomotive No. 556 by Dan Conlin
Known Photographs of this locomotive
Number 556 at Kentville. Canada Science and Technology Museum image STR08398a.
Number 556 at Truro. Canada Science and Technology Museum image STR08399a.
Number 556 at Kingston. Canada Science and Technology Museum image STR08400a.
