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Image:DAR0033c.jpg|[[DAR0033|“Glooscap”]] at [[Kentville]] in May 1929.
 
Image:DAR0033c.jpg|[[DAR0033|“Glooscap”]] at [[Kentville]] in May 1929.
 
File:DAR 4-6-0 No. 33.jpg|[[DAR0033|No. 33]]. Unknown date and location.
 
File:DAR 4-6-0 No. 33.jpg|[[DAR0033|No. 33]]. Unknown date and location.
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File:Rockwell 1.jpg|Six-year-old Bill Young at [[Waterville]] with father Vaughan Young in the cab of [[DAR0033|DAR locomotive 33 "Glooscap"]].
 
File:McBride1page57D.jpg|DAR locomotive [[DAR0033|No. 33 "Glooscap"]] shunting boxcar [[DAR001267|No. 1267]], probably on the [[Digby Wharf]], late 1930s.
 
File:McBride1page57D.jpg|DAR locomotive [[DAR0033|No. 33 "Glooscap"]] shunting boxcar [[DAR001267|No. 1267]], probably on the [[Digby Wharf]], late 1930s.
 
File:CSTM-STR04008a 001 aa cs.jpg|Locomotive [[DAR0033|No. 33]] in a wreck at [[Falmouth]], 1936.
 
File:CSTM-STR04008a 001 aa cs.jpg|Locomotive [[DAR0033|No. 33]] in a wreck at [[Falmouth]], 1936.

Revision as of 17:56, 12 February 2022

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 33, Glooscap

Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0

Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in November 1907.

  • Builder Serial No. 32258
  • 19" x 24" cylinders
  • 60" drivers[1]
  • Class: 10-32-0
  • Wheel Base — Total engine and tender: 48 ft. 1 in.
  • Weight — Total engine and tender: 205,000 lbs.

See article "Dominion Atlantic Ry. Locomotives, The Railway and Marine World 1908 February for detailed specifications.

No. 33 was the last locomotive built for the Dominion Atlantic. It was built in 1907 by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia for the DAR and was identical to her sister No. 32 "Blomidon". The pair of locomotives became the most powerful on the line and were purchased to give the DAR more muscle to haul heavy freight trains.[2]

No. 33 was damaged in a serious wreck near Hantsport in 1919.[3] After the CPR takeover which brought larger ten wheelers to the DAR, No. 33 and 32 were frequently used on the Kentville-Kingsport run pulling the School Trains.[4] No. 33 was put into storage in 1933 and scrapped in late October 1938[5][6]

Name Origin: Heroic spiritual figure of Nova Scotia's Mi'kmaq people

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Other Known Photographs

References and Footnotes

  1. Omer Lavallée lists 60" drivers, as does the February 1908 The Railway and Marine World article, but the C.P.R., M.P. 14 Motive Power Rosters, 1938 lists 63" drivers
  2. "Dominion Atlantic Ry. Locomotives, The Railway and Marine World 1908 February
  3. Photograph and notes in Leon Barron Collection.
  4. Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 1), Gary Ness (page 6)
  5. George Bishop "Railway Notes", Kentville Advertiser, Oct. 16, 1938.
  6. M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 10 (in Kentville, newly painted)

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