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| + | [http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=84721&lang=en No. 24 at Kentville, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Image STR03992a.] The museum data says Builder Number: 1564, Builder Date: 1882, Class: A-5-L, Disposition: SC 1930, Drivers: 62, Cylinders: 17 x 24. | ||
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Revision as of 11:28, 1 November 2011
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 24 "La Tour"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0
Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in May 1898.
- Builder No. 15924
- 18" x 24" cylinders
- 66" drivers.
"La Tour" was the first locomotive ordered and delivered new for the DAR.
It was scrapped in Kentville in November, 1939.(1)
Name Origin: Charles Latour Governor of Acadia, 1638.
Gallery
Other Known Photographs:
- McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-3992, in scrapline at Kentville
- Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-15259
References and Footnotes
(1) Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
(2) M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 39
Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348, 352
External Links
No. 24 at Kentville, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Image STR03992a. The museum data says Builder Number: 1564, Builder Date: 1882, Class: A-5-L, Disposition: SC 1930, Drivers: 62, Cylinders: 17 x 24.
