DAR0013

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 13 "Gabriel"

Note that the first Gabriel was traded with the Canadian Government at the time the W&AR changed gauge to standard gauge and so never was a part of the D.A.R. roster. This locomotive, one of a batch received in trade, was then named Gabriel in place of the first Gabriel.

It was built by Kingston Locomotive Works at Kingston, Ontario in May 1867:

• Builder No. 63.
• 16" x 22" cylinders
• 66" drivers.

A hallmark of this locomotive was its round "porthole-style" cab windows above the boiler.

The first owner was the Nova Scotia Railway and it began its career as NSR No. 22. In 1874, the Nova Scotia Railway became part of the Intercolonial Railway and the locomotive became ICR No. 22.

No. 22 was rebuilt by Portland Works with 12 x 24" cylinders in 1875 and traded to the Windsor & Annapolis Railway where it became W&A No. 2 "Gabriel", part of a swap of nine standard gauge ICR locomotives for nine broad gauge W&A locomotives in a government plan to standardize gauges.(1)

The Windsor and Annapolis sold the locomotive to the New Brunswick Railway in 1881 where it became NBR No. 9. Canadian Pacific bought the New Brunswick Railway in 1890 and is believed to have renumbered the locomotive as CPR 488. It was sold to the DAR in 1895 and became DAR No. 13 "Gabriel". It was scrapped by October 1911.(2)

Name Origin: Gabriel was the lover of the heroine Evangeline in Longfellow's epic poem Evangeline. The name was later used by DAR locomotive No.35.

Gallery

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  W&A locomotive No. 2 "Gabriel" at the Annapolis Royal Station, decorated for a wedding, June 1885.

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  Locomotive No. 13 "Gabriel" at the Kingsport Station, circa 1895-1911.

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  The second "Gabriel" circa 1915.

Known Photographs

McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-3979

References and Footnotes

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

(2) Constructed in Kingston: A History of the Canadian Locomotives Companies 1854 to 1968 by Donald R. McQueen and William D. Thompson, No. 63-64, p. 166.

Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, p. 239, p. 348