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File:Kingsport21.jpg|Ephraim Hiltz inside the [[Kingsport Enginehouse]] with locomotive [[DAR0021|No. 21]], circa 1915. | File:Kingsport21.jpg|Ephraim Hiltz inside the [[Kingsport Enginehouse]] with locomotive [[DAR0021|No. 21]], circa 1915. | ||
| − | Image:DAR0021a.jpg|[[DAR0021|No. 21]] "Fortuna" at [[Windsor]] circa 1921. | + | Image:DAR0021a.jpg|[[DAR0021|No. 21]] "Fortuna" at [[Windsor]] with a [[:Category:Gypsum Trains|gypsum train]], circa 1921. |
File:CSTM-STR18236a 001 aa cs.jpg| slightly Sharper image of Fortuna at [[Windsor]] circa 1921. | File:CSTM-STR18236a 001 aa cs.jpg| slightly Sharper image of Fortuna at [[Windsor]] circa 1921. | ||
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Revision as of 09:01, 8 December 2018
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 21 "Fortuna"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0
Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in September 1894.
- Builder No. 14101
- 18" x 24" cylinders
- 66" drivers.
Ordered as Windsor and Annapolis Railway locomotive No. 17, it was delivered just after the 1894 merger as DAR No. 20 "Fortuna", aptly named to reflect the railway's changing times.
Towards the end of its career, No. 21 ran on the Kingsport branchline, overnighting at the Kingsport Enginehouse.(1)
It was scrapped in December 1923.
Name Origin: Goddess of change in Roman mythology.
Gallery
Ephraim Hiltz inside the Kingsport Enginehouse with locomotive No. 21, circa 1915.
No. 21 "Fortuna" at Windsor with a gypsum train, circa 1921.
slightly Sharper image of Fortuna at Windsor circa 1921.
Known Photographs:
- McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-3988
- Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-9883/STR03988a , N-18236 (pushing gypsum car)
References and Footnotes
(1) Cora Atkinson, Kingsport by the Sea (1980) page 11. This book also contains a rare photograph of the interior of the Kingsport Enginehouse showing a close-up of the pilot of No. 21.
Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List
Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348, 352
