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Image:DAR0502 at Lawrencetown Station b.jpg|[[DAR0502|No. 502]] arriving at Lawrencetown c. 1924-26. | Image:DAR0502 at Lawrencetown Station b.jpg|[[DAR0502|No. 502]] arriving at Lawrencetown c. 1924-26. | ||
Image:DAR0502 at Lawrencetown Station.jpg|[[DAR0502|No. 502]] arriving at Lawrencetown c. 1924-26. | Image:DAR0502 at Lawrencetown Station.jpg|[[DAR0502|No. 502]] arriving at Lawrencetown c. 1924-26. | ||
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Image:DAR No 502 at Kentville Station - CPR No 9929.jpg|[[DAR0502|No. 502]] leading the [[New Yorker]], [[Train No. 25]] at Kentville circa 1940's. | Image:DAR No 502 at Kentville Station - CPR No 9929.jpg|[[DAR0502|No. 502]] leading the [[New Yorker]], [[Train No. 25]] at Kentville circa 1940's. | ||
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File:CSTM-STR03435a_001_aa_cs.jpg|Locomotive [[DAR0502|No. 502]], photograhed by S.F. Styles, unknown date. | File:CSTM-STR03435a_001_aa_cs.jpg|Locomotive [[DAR0502|No. 502]], photograhed by S.F. Styles, unknown date. | ||
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Revision as of 20:42, 21 February 2014
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 502 "Poutrincourt"
Formerly No. 44 (1st)
Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0
Built Schenectady Locomotive Works, Schenectady, New York in November 1902.
- Builder No. 26749
- 20" x 26" cylinders
- 63" drivers.
- 54' 6 1/2" wheelbase length
- CPR Class: D6a
This class D6a built in 1902. It joined the DAR in 1928 beginning as DAR No. 44 (1st). (See DAR No. 44 for earlier career details.) It was renumbered as DAR No. 502 in 1940. In the early 1940s, it was lettered "502 New Yorker" for service on the DAR's luxury boat train The New Yorker. No. 502 was scrapped in March 1946.
Name Origins:
- Jean de Biencourt, Baron de Poutrincourt, second governor of Acadia (1610-1615), later used by locomotive, DAR No. 518.
Gallery
No. 502 arriving at Lawrencetown c. 1924-26.
No. 502 arriving at Lawrencetown c. 1924-26.
Clipping of Locomotive No. 502 with the New Yorker at Kentville Station in September 1928.
No. 502 leading the New Yorker, Train No. 25 at Kentville circa 1940's.
Locomotive No. 502, photograhed by S.F. Styles, unknown date.
Other Known Pictures:
References and Footnotes
- 1941 Canadian Pacific Railway Summary Of Equipment, Form M.P. 14 - January 1, 1941, page 15.
- Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Railway Diagrams and Data (Steam Locomotives), page 3.
- Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
- Gary Ness's Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Vol. II, page 8) Includes a photograph of No. 502 at Kentville, circa 1940 with the "New Yorker".
