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File:8133 resting at Windsor.jpg|[[CPR8133|No. 8133]] at [[Windsor]] in the 1970s. | File:8133 resting at Windsor.jpg|[[CPR8133|No. 8133]] at [[Windsor]] in the 1970s. | ||
File:Slide 95 - feb 76.JPG| Engine 8133 in Yarmouth - February 1976. | File:Slide 95 - feb 76.JPG| Engine 8133 in Yarmouth - February 1976. | ||
| + | File:CPR 8133 & 8137 Windsor 1977-05-27.jpg|CPR SW1200RS's [[CPR8133|No. 8133]] and [[CPR8137|No. 8137]] at [[Windsor]], May 27, 1977. | ||
File:DAR - Engine 8133 - Train 25 - Near Hantsport - 12th September 1977.JPG| Engine 8133 leading train 25 heading towards Hantport 12th September 1977 | File:DAR - Engine 8133 - Train 25 - Near Hantsport - 12th September 1977.JPG| Engine 8133 leading train 25 heading towards Hantport 12th September 1977 | ||
File:DAR - Engine 8122 - Train 25 - Near Hantsport - 12th September 1977.JPG | Engine 8133 leading train 25 heading towards Hantport 12th September 1977 | File:DAR - Engine 8122 - Train 25 - Near Hantsport - 12th September 1977.JPG | Engine 8133 leading train 25 heading towards Hantport 12th September 1977 | ||
Revision as of 20:57, 23 April 2021
Dominion Atlantic Railway Diesel Locomotive No. 8133
- Builder No.: A1733
- Date: 04-1959
- Order Number: C261
- Model: SW1200RS
- Built by: General Motors Electro-Motive Division at General Motors Diesel, London, Ontario
- Prime Mover: EMD 12-567-C (V12 2-Stroke)
- HP: 1200
- Displacement: 567 cu in per cylinder = 6804 cu in total
- Stroke & Bore: 8.5" x 10"
- Aspiration: Roots Blower
- Generator: EMD D15
- Gear Ratio: 62:15
- Tractive Effort: 42,000 lbs @ 18% Adhesion
- Trucks: EMD Flexicoil B-B trucks
- Wheel Arrangement: B-B
- Drivers: 40"
- Weight: 232,700 lbs
- Wheelbase length: 22' (center of bolsters)
- Overall length: 44' 5" (coupler face to coupler face)
- Height: 14' 6-1/2"
- Width" 10' (underframe)
- Maximum Speed: 65 mph
- CPR Class: DRS-12b
No. 8032 arrived on the D.A.R in 1959. First photographic evidence of it was in August 1959. Last photographic evidence of it was in 1979. Retired (2003). Traded in to Rail Trust Equipment (2/2004). Sold to Cenex Harvest States Grain.
Operational Appearances
Gallery
Locomotive No. 8133 hauling Train No. 11, passing ruins of Falmouth Station and the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse, July 1959.
CPR No. 8133 wayfreight en route to Annapolis Royal at Aylesford in August 1959.
No. 8135, No. 8133 with a train of Big Otis gypsum cars at Windsor Station, 1960.
The Kentville Roundhouse with diesels No. 8135, No. 8132, No. 8137, No. 8133, No. 8140, No. 8134, the DAR Track Crane No. 3 and the Canada Foods Plant smokestack, June 12, 1960.
Passenger Extra with three coaches from Kentville led by SW1200RS No. 8133 picking up RCN recruits for HMCS Cornwallis at the Digby Wharf in the summer of 1966.
Digby June 1967.
No. 8133 and ballast cars repairing washout at the Halfway River Bridge at Hantsport, CKF paper plant in background, August 1971.
Diesel No. 8133 and van No. 436994 at Kentville on July 18, 1975.
Engine 8133 in Yarmouth - February 1976.
Engine 8133 leading train 25 heading towards Hantport 12th September 1977
Engine 8133 leading train 25 heading towards Hantport 12th September 1977
No. 8133 at CN's Rockingham (Halifax) yard in 1979.
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