DAR0024

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 24 "La Tour"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in May 1898.

• Builder No. 15924
• 18" x 24" cylinders
• 66" drivers.

"La Tour" was the first locomotive ordered and delivered new for the DAR.

It was scrapped in Kentville in November, 1939.(1)

Name Origin: Charles Latour Governor of Acadia, 1638.

Gallery

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  La Tour, Locomotive No. 24 in Kentville.

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  Locomotive 24 in the scrap line behind the Kentville Repair Shop with the Kentville Station in the background, circa 1939.

Other Known Photographs:

• No. 24 in scrapline at Kentville, Canada Science and Technology Museum, McQuinn Collection, N-3992, and Stephens Collection, Image STR03992a.
  

The museum data says Builder Number: 1564, Builder Date: 1882, Class: A-5-L, Disposition: SC 1930, Drivers: 62

• Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-15259 (This photo is the same as No. 24 above.)

References and Footnotes

(1) Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"

(2) M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 39

Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348, 352