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W&ARGABRIEL
Windsor and Annapolis Railway Steam Locomotive "Gabriel"
- Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0
- Built by: Messrs. Fox, Walker & Co.
- Date: mm/yyyy
- Builder No.:
- Cylinders: 16" x 22"
- Drivers: 61"
- Wheelbase length, (engine and tender): xx' yy"
- Length of Wheel base 20' 8" inches
- Do. to centre of Bogie 17' 9"
- Do. of Bogie 5' 0"
- Overall pilot to tender coupler length: xx' yy"
- Name Origin:
This is the Gabriel referred to in History of the Dominion Atlantic Railway on the first two plates of the book and in the correct photo below is incorrectly identified as built by CLC in Kingston. This Gabriel was traded to the Canadian Government when the line's gauge was changed and they received another locomotive (No. 13 which they named Gabriel in place of this one that was traded.
Mixed traffic engine constructed by Messrs. Fox, Walker & Co., Bristol, for the Windsor and Annapolis Railway, Nova Scotia.
This engine is in general design in accordance with the prevailing American type of passenger engines having four coupled wheels and a bogie The resemblance ends there for the engine is entirely English in detail which appears to be much appreciated by the ofiicials of lines on which the engine is at work The bogie is strongly constructed with plate framing and inside bearings and besides having the ordinary rotating movement on a pivot it may traverse laterally for a few inches A slight lateral movement has also been provided for in the axleboxes of the driving wheels There are 150 flue tubes 2 inches in diameter and as the barrel of the boiler is 4 feet 2 inches in diameter there is abundant space for the generation of steam and circulation of water The tender holds 2,000 gallons of water and is carried on two four wheel bogies.
Operational Appearances
Gallery
The first Windsor & Annapolis "Gabriel" built by Messrs. Fox, Walker & Co.
