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===Known Photographs of this locomotive=== | ===Known Photographs of this locomotive=== | ||
* [http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=6005&lang=en At Windsor, Harold Jenkins Photo, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, Photo No. STR18262a] | * [http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=6005&lang=en At Windsor, Harold Jenkins Photo, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, Photo No. STR18262a] | ||
| + | * [http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=228784&lang=en No. 545 'Howe' from the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Image MAT003599.] The museum identifies this as locomotive 543 but perhaps this is a misreading of the front number. The indistinct name on the cab side is short, like 'Howe'. The museum also dates this as sometime in 1930, which is not the year of scrapping. The locomotive in the picture has no main rod attached but it may be lying on the running board above. | ||
===References and Footnotes=== | ===References and Footnotes=== | ||
Revision as of 11:58, 26 October 2011
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 545 "Howe"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0
Built by Sashsische Maschinenbau A.G., Chemnitz, Germany (Saxon Locomotive Machine Works) in November 1903.
- Builder No. 2832
- 20" x 26" cylinders
- 63" drivers
- 53' wheelbase length, engine and tender
- 63' 3" overall pilot to tender coupler
- CPR Class:
Built as CPR No. 545, it arrived on the DAR by 1929(1) and was given the name "Howe". It was scrapped in April 1937.(2)
Name Origin: Joseph Howe, visionary Nova Scotian political leader who won responsible government.(3)
Gallery
Last page from Highlights of Nova Scotia History booklet explaining the name origin of No. 545.
Known Photographs of this locomotive
- At Windsor, Harold Jenkins Photo, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, Photo No. STR18262a
- No. 545 'Howe' from the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Image MAT003599. The museum identifies this as locomotive 543 but perhaps this is a misreading of the front number. The indistinct name on the cab side is short, like 'Howe'. The museum also dates this as sometime in 1930, which is not the year of scrapping. The locomotive in the picture has no main rod attached but it may be lying on the running board above.
References and Footnotes
(1)&(3) Highlights of Nova Scotia History Dominion Atlantic Railway (1929) First Edition. (A booklet about the name, number and historical names of DAR locomotives.)
(2) Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
