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Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 16 "Atalanta"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0
Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in March 1892.
- Builder No. 12544
- 17" x 24" cylinders
- 66" drivers.
This was built as Windsor and Annapolis Railway locomotive No. 14 "Atalanta" and became DAR No. 16 "Atalanta in 1894.
It was scrapped in July 1923.
Name Origin: Huntress in Greek mythology.
Gallery
"Atalanta" at Weston with driver Dan Deloughry.
Other Known Photographs:
- At Yarmouth, 1900, same image as above, but a much higher quality original DAR promotional photograph, is found at the Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, dated 1900 Acc# 1997-32, G.E. Lovett Collection.
- [No. 16 at Weston with driver Dan Deloughry, Harold Jenkins photo McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-3983. This is another photo in sequence shot minutes after the No. 16 shot above in our wiki collection.
- Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-18232
References and Footnotes
Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List
Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348, 352
