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File:DAR - Engine 470 - Kingsport - Harold Jenkins Photo - Unkwn Date - 1946.jpg|[[DAR0470|Locomotive 470]] at the [[Kingsport Station]] with the [[Mayflower Fruit Company warehouse]] and the Kingsport Section House, 1946. | File:DAR - Engine 470 - Kingsport - Harold Jenkins Photo - Unkwn Date - 1946.jpg|[[DAR0470|Locomotive 470]] at the [[Kingsport Station]] with the [[Mayflower Fruit Company warehouse]] and the Kingsport Section House, 1946. | ||
Image:DAR0470i.jpg|A well groomed [[DAR0470|No. 470]] at Truro in February of 1948. | Image:DAR0470i.jpg|A well groomed [[DAR0470|No. 470]] at Truro in February of 1948. | ||
| + | File:470 in Canning.jpg|[[DAR0470|Locomotive 470]] with Kingsport-bound train leaving [[Canning]], Maple Leaf Fruit Company warehouse to left, circa 1940-1955. | ||
Image:CDCDA Man Train.jpg|Locomotive [[DAR0470|No. 470]] delivers the mail at [[Centreville]]. | Image:CDCDA Man Train.jpg|Locomotive [[DAR0470|No. 470]] delivers the mail at [[Centreville]]. | ||
Image:DAR0470d.jpg|[[Train No. 14]] arriving at Kentville led by [[DAR0470|No. 470]]. [[Kentville Roundhouse|engine terminal]] at left. [[Kentville Water Tower|water stand pipe]] in centre. August 1949. | Image:DAR0470d.jpg|[[Train No. 14]] arriving at Kentville led by [[DAR0470|No. 470]]. [[Kentville Roundhouse|engine terminal]] at left. [[Kentville Water Tower|water stand pipe]] in centre. August 1949. | ||
Revision as of 21:40, 1 September 2021
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 470.
Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0
Built by Montreal Locomotive Works January 1912.
- Builder No. 50462
- 19" x 24" cylinders
- 63" drivers.
- CPR Class: D4g
This locomotive was transferred to DAR in 1940 and officially listed as a D.A.R. locomotive in 1941 (1) and 1947 (2). No. 470 was the only D4g on the DAR and retained its CPR livery and number for its entire DAR career.(3) It was regularly assigned locomotive on the Kingsport branchline in the 1940s and 50s. No. 470 was scrapped in Kentville in July 1955.(4)
Gallery
Locomotive No. 470 on the Kentville Turntable with the Water Tower in background, circa 1942.
DAR locomotive No. 470 with Train No. 11 at the Kingsport Station, circa 1942.
Locomotive No. 470 with crew at Kingsport Station, June 1943.
Locomotive No. 470 with crew at Kingsport, August 1943.
Locomotive 470 at the Kingsport Station with the Mayflower Fruit Company warehouse and the Kingsport Section House, 1946.
A well groomed No. 470 at Truro in February of 1948.
Locomotive 470 with Kingsport-bound train leaving Canning, Maple Leaf Fruit Company warehouse to left, circa 1940-1955.
Locomotive No. 470 delivers the mail at Centreville.
Train No. 14 arriving at Kentville led by No. 470. engine terminal at left. water stand pipe in centre. August 1949.
No. 470 in front of Kentville Car Shop at Kentville in August 1951.
No. 470 leaving for Kingsport with Train No. 11 from Kentville in August 1951. Visible is the business car Nova Scotia in front of the repair shop.
No. 470 at Kentville in September 1951.
No. 470 at Kentville yards making up consist for Train No. 13 to Kingsport on July 3, 1954.
No. 470 at Kentville station July 3, 1954 leading Train No. 13 for Kingsport.
No. 470 at the Kentville Station on July 3, 1954 leading Train No. 13 for Kingsport.
No. 470 leaves Kentville with Train No. 13 to Kingsport on July 3, 1954.
Other Known Images
Photo of No. 470 at the station in Kingsport on the "History of Kingsport" web page: http://www.kingsport.ca/history/history.htm
No. 470 at Kentville in March, 1941 - Canada Science and Technology Museum Image STR08365a.
No. 470 at Digby - Canada Science and Technology Museum Image STR08366a.
Photo of locomotive on page 47, Locomotive Quarterly, Spring 1998, Vol XXI, Number 3, photo collection of Kenneth S. MacDonald.
References and Footnotes
- (1) 1941 Canadian Pacific Railway Summary Of Equipment, Form M.P. 14 - January 1, 1941, page 15.
- (2) Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Railway Diagrams and Data (Steam Locomotives), page 3.
- (3) Jim O'Donnell, Dominion Atlantic Locomotive Roster
- (4) Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348.
