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DAR0024
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 24 "La Tour"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0
Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in May 1898.
- Builder No. 15924
- 18" x 24" cylinders
- 66" drivers.
"La Tour" was the first locomotive ordered and delivered new for the DAR.
It was scrapped in Kentville in November, 1939.(1)
Name Origin: Charles Latour Governor of Acadia, 1638.
Gallery
Locomotive No. 24 with an westbound passenger train crossing the Gaspereaux River Bridge in Horton Landing, Aug 24, 1902.
Coloured postcard showing the Flying Bluenose leaving Hantsport crossing the Halfway River Bridge with passenger car No.27 "IRIS" and possibly baggage car No. 46 and locomotive No. 24, 1911.
DAR locomotive No. 24 "Latour" with DAR combine No. 33, probably in Digby, late 1930s.
Locomotive 24 in the scrap line behind the Kentville Repair Shop with the Kentville Station in the background, circa 1939.
In the dead line at Kentville June 1939.
Other Known Photographs:
- No. 24 in scrapline at Kentville, Canada Science and Technology Museum, McQuinn Collection, N-3992, and Stephens Collection, Image STR03992a.
The museum data says Builder Number: 1564, Builder Date: 1882, Class: A-5-L, Disposition: SC 1930, Drivers: 62
- Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-15259 (This photo is the same as No. 24 above.)
References and Footnotes
(1) Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
(2) M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 39
Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348, 352
