DAR0537

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 537 "Fronsac" "Evangeline"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0

Built by North British Locomotive Company at Glasgow. Scotland in December 1903.

• Builder No. 16051
• 21" x 26" cylinders
• 63" drivers
• 53' wheelbase length, engine and tender
• CPR Class: D6b

This locomotive started on the DAR as the Second No. 40. See DAR No.40 (2nd) for details of its earlier career. In May 1937, it was renumbered from DAR No. 40 to as DAR No. 537 as the DAR shifted to CPR style numbers. It was renamed "Fronsac", complete with a cast brass plaque with the name, and had the honour of carrying the "President's Special", a special train of CPR officials on a tour of the DAR on July 18, 1937.(1) No. 537 seems to have given up the name "Fronsac" to DAR No. 999 in 1938 and reverted to its old name "Evangeline". No. 537 went into the scrapline at Kentville in November 1939 and was scrapped in December 1939.(3) & (4)

Name Origin: Nicholas Denys, Sieur de Fronsac, merchant and colonial developer of Acadia in 1632, later used by No. 999

Gallery

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  No. 537 at the Yarmouth Enginehouse.

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  Snowplow No. 907 with locomotive No. 537 at Digby, circa 1937.

Other Known Photographs as DAR No. 537:

• No. 537 in Windsor, McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-4045. Same picture - clearer print Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, STR08385a. Also STR15149a.
• No. 537 in Windsor, Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-8385.

References and Footnotes

• (1) Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, pages 258, 294, 348.
• (2) Charles McBride Photo Album No. 1, page 14.
• (3) Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
• (4) M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, page 39.
• 1941 Canadian Pacific Railway Summary Of Equipment, Form M.P. 14 - January 1, 1941, page 15.