DAR0017

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 17 "Yarmouth".

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in May 1893.

• Builder No. 13437
• 14 & 18 x 24" compound cylinders as delivered, rebuilt 1907 as 16.5" x 24" cylinders
• 66" drivers.

Built as the first of two identical locomotives (No. 18 was the 2nd) for the Yarmouth and Annapolis Railway (the briefly renamed Western Counties Railway in 1893) as Y & A No. 5 "Yarmouth". It became DAR No. 17 "Yarmouth" in 1894.

It was scrapped in July 1923.

Name Origin: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, headquarters of the Western Counties Railway and western terminus of the DAR.

Gallery

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  "Yarmouth", 1906 or earlier .

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  No. 17 at the Wilmot Station in Wilmot 1907 or later.

Other Known Photographs:

• McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-3984
• Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-9882

References and Footnotes

Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"

Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List

Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348