DAR0006

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 6 "Minnehaha"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Portland Works in 1866.

• Builder No. 63-64
• 12" x 22" cylinders
• 60" drivers.

Built for the Intercolonial Railway.

Rebuilt by with 12 x 24" cylinders in 1875 and traded to the Windsor & Annapolis Railway where it became W&A No. 9, part of a swap of nine standard gauge ICR locomotives for nine broad gauge W&A locomotives in a government plan to standardize gauges.

Became DAR No. 6 "Minnehaha" in 1894.

Name Origin: Minnehaha was the lover of "Hiawatha" in Longfellow's popular 1855 poem "Song of Hiawatha".

Gallery

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  "Minnehaha".

References and Footnotes

Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"

Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List

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

Known Photographs:

• McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-3969
• Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-18,225