DAR0043

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 43 "Byng", "Nicholson"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0

Built Schenectady Locomotive Works, Schenectady, New York in November 1902.

• Builder No. 26764
• 20" x 26" cylinders
• 63" drivers.
• 54' 6 1/2" wheelbase length
• CPR Class: D6a

This locomotive was built as Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive No. 943, renumbered as CPR No. 517 in 1908.(1) It was transferred to the DAR in June 1923 and became DAR No. 43, "Byng" - named after Canada's Governor General at the time. By 1933 it had been renamed "Nicholson". It was scrapped in May 1940.

Name Origins:

• Viscount Byng of Vimy, Governor General of Canada 1920-1926
• Col. Francis Nicholson, leader of the British expedition which captured Acadia in 1710 and later Governor of Nova Scotia, the same name later used by DAR No. 555.

Gallery

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  DAR locomotive No. 43 "Byng" and crew at Kentville with Governor General Lord Byng's special train, August, 1923.

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  DAR Engine No. 43 with Train No. 98, at Digby Wharf with engineer Harry Ward centre & wharf agent McBride on right, SS Princess Helene in distance, circa 1930s.

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  No. 43 dockside at Digby, circa 1935.

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  Number plate from No. 43 at the Exporail Museum in Delson, Quebec, Dec. 30, 2022.

Known Photographs:

• McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-4019 (in Kentville), N-4020 (in Digby).
• Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, STR08357 (in Kentville), N-18250 (in Windsor with DAR caboose).

References and Footnotes

(1) Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 258 & 348.

Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"