DAR0033

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 33, Glooscap.

Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0

Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in November 1907.

• Builder No. 32258
• 19" x 24" cylinders
• 63" drivers(1)
• Class: 10-32-0

No. 33 was the last locomotive built for the Dominion Atlantic. It was built in 1907 by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia for the DAR and was identical to her sister No. 32 "Blomidon". No. 33 was damaged in a serious wreck near Hantsport in 1919.(2) After the CPR takeover which brought larger ten wheelers to the DAR, No. 33 and 32 were frequently used on the Kentville-Kingsport run pulling the School Trains.(3) No. 33 was put into storage in 1933 and scrapped in late October 1938(4)&(5)

Name Origin: Heroic spirtual figure of Nova Scotia's Mi'kmaq people

Gallery

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  No. 33 at Wolfville Station circa 1907 to 1911.

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  Locomotive No. 33 with Van No. 435786, location given as Canning.

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  No. 33 “Glooscap” with Van No. 435786, location given as Kentville.

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  No. 33 "Gloscap", location given as Kentville, cropped version

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  “Glooscap” at Kentville in May 1929.

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  “Glooscap” in the scrap line at Kentville in July 1938.

Other Known Photographs:

• Photo of locomotive on page 44, Locomotive Quarterly, Spring 1998, Vol XXI, Number 3, photo collection of Kenneth S. MacDonald.
• McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-4007 (May 1929, Land of Evangeline paint scheme); N-4008 (Glooscap in wreck, 1936) and N-4009 (with Van and crew)
• Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-9887.
• George Warden Collection, Musquodoboit Railway Museum, MRM76.1.495
• No.33 at Kentville with five-man crew, Canada Science and Technology Museum Image STR04010a.

References and Footnotes

(1) Omer Lavallée lists 60" drivers but the C.P.R., M.P. 14 Motive Power Rosters, 1938 lists 63" drivers.

(2) Photograph and notes in Leon Barron Collection.

(3) Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 1), Gary Ness (page 6)

(4) George Bishop "Railway Notes", Kentville Advertiser, Oct. 16, 1938.

(5) M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 10 (in Kentville, newly painted)

• Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"

• Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, p. 348, 352.