DAR0007

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 7, "Basil"

Built by Portland Locomotive Works in 1875.

• Builder No. 63-64
• 12" x 24" cylinders
• 60" drivers.

In 1875, it was traded to the Windsor & Annapolis Railway where it became W&A No. 7 "Basil", part of a swap of nine standard gauge ICR locomotives for nine broad gauge W&A locomotives in a government plan to standardize gauges.

It kept the W&A name and number to became DAR No. 7 "Basil" in 1893.

The name came from the blacksmith character in Longfellow's poem Evangeline and was later carried by DAR Locomotive No. 36.

References and Footnotes

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