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Rebuilt by [[:Category:Portland Works|Portland Works]] with 12 x 24" cylinders in 1875 and traded to the [[:Category:Windsor and Annapolis Railway|Windsor & Annapolis Railway]] where it became W&A No. 3, part of a swap of nine standard gauge ICR locomotives for nine broad gauge W&A locomotives in a government plan to standardize gauges. | Rebuilt by [[:Category:Portland Works|Portland Works]] with 12 x 24" cylinders in 1875 and traded to the [[:Category:Windsor and Annapolis Railway|Windsor & Annapolis Railway]] where it became W&A No. 3, part of a swap of nine standard gauge ICR locomotives for nine broad gauge W&A locomotives in a government plan to standardize gauges. | ||
| − | Jim O'Donnell, Charles McBride and J.B King all record that this locomotive became DAR No. 2 "Hiawatha" in 1894.(1) J. B. King indicates that it was later sold to the New Brunswick Railway. | + | Jim O'Donnell, Charles McBride and [[J. B. King]] all record that this locomotive became DAR No. 2 "Hiawatha" in 1894.(1) [[J. B. King]] indicates that it was later sold to the New Brunswick Railway. |
However The history of the Kingston Locomotive Works indicates that W&AR No. 3 was sold to the New Brunswick Railway in 1881 and scrapped in 1890, before it ever became a DAR locomotive.(2) | However The history of the Kingston Locomotive Works indicates that W&AR No. 3 was sold to the New Brunswick Railway in 1881 and scrapped in 1890, before it ever became a DAR locomotive.(2) | ||
Revision as of 18:27, 3 November 2018
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 2 "Hiawatha"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0
Built by Kingston Locomotive Works in 1866.
- Builder No. 64
- 12" x 22" cylinders
- 60" drivers.
Built for the Intercolonial Railway.
Rebuilt by Portland Works with 12 x 24" cylinders in 1875 and traded to the Windsor & Annapolis Railway where it became W&A No. 3, part of a swap of nine standard gauge ICR locomotives for nine broad gauge W&A locomotives in a government plan to standardize gauges.
Jim O'Donnell, Charles McBride and J. B. King all record that this locomotive became DAR No. 2 "Hiawatha" in 1894.(1) J. B. King indicates that it was later sold to the New Brunswick Railway.
However The history of the Kingston Locomotive Works indicates that W&AR No. 3 was sold to the New Brunswick Railway in 1881 and scrapped in 1890, before it ever became a DAR locomotive.(2)
Name Origin: The namesake hero of William Longfellow's popular 1855 epic poem "Song of Hiawatha".
Gallery
Known Photograph:
- McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-18223
References and Footnotes
(1)
- Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
- Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List
- J.B. King, "Windsor & Annapolis Railway Motive Power Presents Thorny Problems", Halifax Chronicle Herald, Sat. May 24, 1958, p. 20
(2) Constructed in Kingston: A History of the Canadian Locomotives Companies 1854 to 1968 by Donald R. McQueen and William D. Thompson, No. 63-64, p. 166.
