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File:CSTM-STR33184a 001 aa cs.jpg | In Kentville, approaching turntable (1953-08-30)
 
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Image:DAR2551b.jpg|[[DAR2551|No. 2551]] beside [[Yarmouth Enginehouse]] at [[Yarmouth]] on July 3, 1954.
 
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Image:CSTM-STR33186a_001_aa_cs.jpg | 2551 at [[Kentville]], N.S. 1953-08-30.
 
File:Kentville 5.JPG|[[DAR2551|Locomotive 2551]] depicted on mural on former [[P. R. Ritcey|Oyler/P.R. Ritcey warehouse]], [[Kentville]], July 15, 2013.
 
File:Kentville 5.JPG|[[DAR2551|Locomotive 2551]] depicted on mural on former [[P. R. Ritcey|Oyler/P.R. Ritcey warehouse]], [[Kentville]], July 15, 2013.
 
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Revision as of 12:48, 18 June 2019


Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 2551.

Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-2

Built by the Canadian Pacific's Angus Shops in February of 1909.

  • 22.5" x 28" cylinders
  • 70" drivers.
  • 64' 6" wheelbase length
  • 75' 8" over couplers
  • CPR Class: G2s

Listed as a M & A unit 1927 (G2s(x)), in 1938 as a C.P.R. unit and then from 1941 to 1955 as a D.A.R unit (G2s). (1)

Photo of unit found in: Greg McDonnell, Canadian Pacific: Stand Fast, Craigellachie!, p. 25 and in Gary W. Ness, Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 2), p.14.

Gallery

References and Footnotes


External Links

Dominion Atlantic locomotive gallery on Old Time Trades web site including nice colour images of 2551
Locomotive 2551 at Truro - from the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Image STR08417a .
Locomotive 2551 at Truro - from the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Image STR08418a.