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Image:DAR0018b.jpg|Yarmouth & Annapolis No. 6 ([[:Category:Western Counties Railway|Western Counties]]) [[DAR0018|"Digby"]] builder's ([[:Category:Baldwin Locomotive Works|Baldwin]]) photo. This locomotive became the DAR [[DAR0018|No. 18]]. | Image:DAR0018b.jpg|Yarmouth & Annapolis No. 6 ([[:Category:Western Counties Railway|Western Counties]]) [[DAR0018|"Digby"]] builder's ([[:Category:Baldwin Locomotive Works|Baldwin]]) photo. This locomotive became the DAR [[DAR0018|No. 18]]. | ||
Image:DAR0018a.jpg|Locomotive [[DAR0024|No. 18]] near [[Kentville]] Oct. 1, 1894. | Image:DAR0018a.jpg|Locomotive [[DAR0024|No. 18]] near [[Kentville]] Oct. 1, 1894. | ||
| − | Image:Engine 18 Bridetown.jpg|[[DAR0018|No. 18]] at [[Bridgetown]] 1907 or later. | + | Image:Engine 18 Bridetown.jpg|[[DAR0018|No. 18]] at [[Bridgetown]] December 1907 or later. |
Image:DAR0018d.jpg|[[DAR0018|"Digby"]] at [[Windsor]] in 1921. | Image:DAR0018d.jpg|[[DAR0018|"Digby"]] at [[Windsor]] in 1921. | ||
Image:DAR0018c.jpg|[[DAR0018|"Digby"]] at Mosher's Quarry, Windsor circa 1923. | Image:DAR0018c.jpg|[[DAR0018|"Digby"]] at Mosher's Quarry, Windsor circa 1923. | ||
Revision as of 22:09, 8 May 2009
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 18 "Digby"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0
Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in May 1893.
- Builder No. 13438
- 14 & 18 x 24" Vauclain compound cylinders as delivered, rebuilt November 1907 as 16.5" x 24" cylinders
- 66" drivers.
Built as the second of two identical locomotives (No. 17 was the first) for the Yarmouth and Annapolis Railway (the briefly renamed Western Counties Railway in 1893) as Y & A No. 6 "Digby". It became DAR No. 18 in 1894, keeping its old name. As DAR No. 18, this locomotive had the honour of pulling the first DAR passenger train from Halifax to Yarmouth and return on October 1, 1894.
It was scrapped before 1920 according to Omer Lavallée (1) or in 1924 according to Andrew Merrilees.(2)
Name Origin: Digby, Nova Scotia, the eastern terminus of the Western Counties Railway and Yarmouth and Annapolis Railway.
Gallery
Yarmouth & Annapolis No. 6 (Western Counties) "Digby" builder's (Baldwin) photo. This locomotive became the DAR No. 18.
No. 18 at Bridgetown December 1907 or later.
"Digby" at Mosher's Quarry, Windsor circa 1923.
Other Known Photographs:
- Gary W. Ness in Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume One) on page 4 arriving with first train to Yarmouth, 1894.
- Photo of loco on page 42, Locomotive Quarterly, Spring 1998, Vol XXI, Number 3, photo collection of Kenneth S. MacDonald.
- Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, No. 18 in Kentville Oct. 1, 1894 en route to Yarmouth.
- McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa: N-3985 in Kentville with W.R. Campbell Oct. 1, 1894; N-3986 in Digby, 1895; and N-3987 in Annapolis Royal on bridge, 1909.
- Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-8345 (loading gypsum) and N-18233 (in Windsor)
References and Footnotes
- (1) Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348
- (2) Andrew Merrilees Collection, Library and Archives Canada, photograph C-013768
- Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
- Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List
