DAR0001

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 1 "Queen Mab"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Rogers in 1860

• Builder No.: 1691
• Cylinders: 12" x 24"
• Drivers: 56"

Began as Atlanta Railroad, named "Westpointe" and "LaGrange"

Sold to Fredericton Branch Railway, named "L.A. Wilmot"

Sold to the Cornwallis Valley Railway as No. 1 in 1888

Became Windsor & Annapolis Railway No. 13 in 1890

Became DAR No. 1 in 1893

Name Origin: Queen Mab is queen of the fairies in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", a play which supplied the name of several W & A locomotives inherited by the DAR.

References and Footnotes

Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"

Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List

J.B. King, "Windsor & Annapolis Railway Motive Power Presents Throny Problems", Halifax Chronicle Herald, Sat. May 24, 1958, p. 20

Known Photographs:

• McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-3966
• Nick & Hemlma Mika An Illustrated Hsitory of Canadian Railways, p. 137