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Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 6227

Built by the Canadian Pacific's Angus Shops in September of 1911. It was acquired by the DAR in 1939, replacing the older 0-6-0 No. 6189. Listed as a D.A.R. unit in both 1941^[1] and 1947^[2], it served until the end of steam when it was removed from the D.A.R. on December 30 1956^[3] and scrapped in February 1957. Never given an official name by the DAR, it was nicknamed "the Old Goat" by train crews.^[4]

Gallery

Yard switcher locomotive type 0-6-0, No. 6227 at Kentville on March 30, 1946.
Yard switcher locomotive type 0-6-0, No. 6227 at Kentville (1946?).
Yard switcher locomotive type 0-6-0, No. 6227 at Kentville (1947?).
No. 1077 at Kentville sitting on the turntable lead in September of 1951. No. 6227 can clearly be seen behind.
Engine 6227 in from of the Kentville Machine Shop, Aug. 30, 1953.
In front of roundhouse 1955.
DAR Kentville switcher No. 6227 beside the Kentville Roundhouse with the Kentville Cornwallis River Bridge and one of the Kentville Section Houses in background, circa 1956.
No. 6227 in front of Kentville Roundhouse on August 27, 1956. Visable as well, boiler plant and smoke stack, roundhouse turntable, water stand pipe, coaling tower and sanding tower.
Roundhouse turntable view of CPR No. 6227 at Kentville on August 27, 1956. Visable as well, boiler plant and smoke stack, water stand pipe, coaling tower and sanding tower.
No. 2526 arriving at Kentville with Train No. 12 from Kingsport on August 27, 1956. Visable as well, yard switcher No. 6227, roundhouse turntable, water stand pipe, coaling tower, sanding tower, track crane and boiler plant smoke stack.
No. 6227 in front of the turntable with the water standpipe behind on August 27, 1956.
No. 6227 in Kentville, Oct. 20, 1956.

Other Known Images

Photo of locomotive on page 54, "A Dominion Atlantic Sojourn." Locomotive Quarterly, Spring 1998..

References and Footnotes

↑ 1941 Canadian Pacific Railway Summary Of Equipment, Form M.P. 14 - January 1, 1941, page 15.
↑ Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Railway Diagrams and Data (Steam Locomotives), page 3.
↑ From the daily notes of George Parks, Wendell Lemon, Atlantic Rails Facebook Group, March 23, 2020.
↑ Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 1), Gary Ness, page 12

External Links

Locomotive No. 6227 at Kentville - Canada Science and Technology Museum, Image STR08422a. This is the same picture as [[1]] above, but cropped differently and with details more clearly visible.

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