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.

External Links

Dominion Atlantic locomotive gallery on Old Time Trades web site including nice colour images of 2551
Locomotive 2551 at Truro - from the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Image STR08417a .
Locomotive 2551 at Truro - from the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Image STR08418a.