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| + | *[[McBride, Charles|Charles McBride]] "Dominion Atlantic Railway I" Locomotive List | ||
| + | *J.B. King, "Windsor & Annapolis Railway Motive Power Presents Thorny Problems", ''Halifax Chronicle Herald'', Sat. May 24, 1958, p. 20 | ||
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Revision as of 22:07, 26 November 2008
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 3 "Gaspereaux"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0
Built by Kingston Locomotive Works in 1866.
- Builder No. 75
- 12" x 24" cylinders
- 62" drivers.
Began as Nova Scotia Railway No. 23.
Later Intercolonial Railway No. 23.
Rebuilt by Portland Works with 12 x 24" cylinders in 1875 and traded to the Windsor & Annapolis Railway where it became W&A No. 6, part of a swap of nine standard gauge ICR locomotives for nine broad gauge W&A locomotives in a government plan to standardize gauges.
Became DAR No. 3 in 1894.
Name Origin: River crossed by the DAR at Horton where Acadians boarded deportation ships. Also the name of a popular fish for New England anglers.
Gallery
References and Footnotes
(1)
- Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
- Charles McBride "Dominion Atlantic Railway I" Locomotive List
- J.B. King, "Windsor & Annapolis Railway Motive Power Presents Thorny Problems", Halifax Chronicle Herald, Sat. May 24, 1958, p. 20
(2) Constructed in Kingston: A History of the Canadian Locomotives Companies 1854 to 1968 by Donald R. McQueen and William D. Thompson, No. 63-64, p. 166.
