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*CPR Class: [[Category:D6b|D6b]] | *CPR Class: [[Category:D6b|D6b]] | ||
| − | This locomotive was No. 38 "Bear River" on the DAR from 1917 to 1923. (See [[DAR0038]] for details of its earlier career.) It returned to the DAR by 1934 as No. 520 and was renamed "Champlain".(1) Not officially on the DAR roster, it may have been a loaned locomotive given a DAR identity by Kentville Shop crews. It | + | This locomotive was No. 38 "Bear River" on the DAR from 1917 to 1923. (See [[DAR0038]] for details of its earlier career.) It returned to the DAR by 1934 as No. 520 and was renamed "Champlain".(1) Not officially on the DAR roster, it may have been a loaned locomotive given a DAR identity by Kentville Shop crews. It was scrapped in February 1937(2) at Montreal(3). |
Name Origin: Samuel Champlain, famous explorer and one of the founders of Acadia in 1604. | Name Origin: Samuel Champlain, famous explorer and one of the founders of Acadia in 1604. | ||
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Known Photographs of this locomotive: | Known Photographs of this locomotive: | ||
| − | * McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-4033 | + | * [http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=84895&lang=en At Moncton (en route to scrapping?) McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-4033] |
===References and Footnotes=== | ===References and Footnotes=== | ||
(1) ''[[Highlights of Nova Scotia History]]'' Dominion Atlantic Railway (1934) Third Edition. (A booklet about the name, number and historical names of DAR locomotives.) | (1) ''[[Highlights of Nova Scotia History]]'' Dominion Atlantic Railway (1934) Third Edition. (A booklet about the name, number and historical names of DAR locomotives.) | ||
| − | + | (2) [[:Category:Jim O'Donnell Collection|Jim O'Donnell]] "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster" | |
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| + | (3) [http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=84895&lang=en Cataloguing Note, McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-4033] | ||
*[[Omer Lavallée]], ''[[Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives]]'', pages 258, 294, 348. | *[[Omer Lavallée]], ''[[Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives]]'', pages 258, 294, 348. | ||
Revision as of 21:26, 16 August 2009
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 520 "Champlain"
Formerly No.38 "Bear River"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0
Built by North British Locomotive Company at Glasgow. Scotland in November 1903.
- Builder No. 16034
- 21" x 26" cylinders
- 63" drivers
- 53' wheelbase length, engine and tender
- CPR Class:
This locomotive was No. 38 "Bear River" on the DAR from 1917 to 1923. (See DAR0038 for details of its earlier career.) It returned to the DAR by 1934 as No. 520 and was renamed "Champlain".(1) Not officially on the DAR roster, it may have been a loaned locomotive given a DAR identity by Kentville Shop crews. It was scrapped in February 1937(2) at Montreal(3).
Name Origin: Samuel Champlain, famous explorer and one of the founders of Acadia in 1604.
Gallery
Known Photographs of this locomotive:
References and Footnotes
(1) Highlights of Nova Scotia History Dominion Atlantic Railway (1934) Third Edition. (A booklet about the name, number and historical names of DAR locomotives.)
(2) Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
(3) Cataloguing Note, McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-4033
- Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, pages 258, 294, 348.
