DAR2551

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 2551.

Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-2

Built by the Canadian Pacific's Angus Shops in February of 1909.

• 22.5" x 28" cylinders
• 70" drivers.
• 64' 6" wheelbase length
• 75' 8" over couplers
• CPR Class: G2s

Listed as a M & A unit 1927 (G2s(x)), in 1938 as a C.P.R. unit and then from 1941 to 1955 as a D.A.R unit (G2s). (1)

Photo of unit found in: Greg McDonnell, Canadian Pacific: Stand Fast, Craigellachie!, p. 25 and in Gary W. Ness, Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 2), p.14.

Gallery

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  Train No. 98 and engine No. 2551 meeting the SS Yarmouth at the Boston boat dock at Yarmouth, NS in August, 1949.

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  No. 2551 beside Yarmouth Enginehouse at Yarmouth on July 3, 1954.

References and Footnotes

• (1) C.P.R., M.P. 14 Motive Power Roster, 1927, p. 33; 1938, p. 19; 1941, p. 15; 1944, p. 15, 1947, p. 15; 1950, 1952, p. 14; 1952, p. 14; 1955, p. 15
• (1) C.P.R., M.P. 14 Motive Power Roster, 1941, p. 15.
• (2) Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Railway Diagrams and Data (Steam Locomotives), p. 3.