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Revision as of 23:28, 18 January 2009
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 8 "Weymouth"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0
Built by Portland Works in August 1879.
- Builder No. 354
- 16" x 24" cylinders
- 60" drivers.
This was orginally a Western Counties Railway locomotive but retained it's number and name after being acquired by the DAR.
It was scrapped sometime before 1920.
Name Origin: Weymouth, a major station on the WCR.
Gallery
WCR No. 8 in Digby
"Weymouth" at Digby. Same as other photo but cropped and higher resolution.
Known Photographs:
- Gary W. Ness in Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume One) on page 3, showing No. 8 in Digby and (Volume Two) page 5, showing No. 8 Weymouth, in Weymouth.
- McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-3969
- Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-18,225
References and Footnotes
Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List
Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348.
