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Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 32, Blomidon
Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0
Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in October 1907.
- Builder No. 31847
- 19" x 24" cylinders
- 60" drivers[1]
- Class: 10-32-0
- Wheel Base — Total engine and tender: 48 ft. 1 in.
- Weight — Total engine and tender .... about 205,000 lbs.
See article in a "Dominion Atlantic Ry. Locomotives, The Railway and Marine World 1908 February for detailed specifications.
Built in 1907 by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia for the DAR, No. 32 was the first 4-6-0 "ten wheeler" on the DAR and was soon joined by her identical sister, the slightly younger No. 33. The pair of locomotives became the most powerful on the line and were purchased to give the DAR more muscle to haul heavy freight trains.[2] The two locomotives were the last locomotives ordered directly by the DAR. After later 4-6-0s arrived on the DAR following the CPR takeover, No. 32 was frequently used on the Kentville-Kingsport run pulling the School Trains. No. 32 was scrapped in 1941.[3]
A 1:12th scale model of No. 32 is preserved at the Wolfville Station, now the town library. The model was built in 1908 by Arthur Coldwell, a DAR employee in Halifax. It was donated the library by Gary W. Ness. Depicted in 1920s colour scheme, the model is one of the only surviving colour sources to document the DAR's famous pre-war red and gold paint schemes.
Name Origin: Cape Blomidon, dramatic landmark headland overlooking Minas Basin.
Gallery
It is interesting in the Gallery photos below to watch the progression of the front pilot and pilot trucks. As a new loco, No. 32 sports 8 spoked wheels on the front and rear of the pilot and a long extended pilot but by the end of her career she has solid pilot wheels front and back and a short snub pilot.
No. 32 has been a popular choice for model makers. You can view models of this locomotive of the Model Steam Page.
Halifax-Windsor run circa 1912.
Another version, identified as the Governor General's Train, 1912.
Locomotive No. 32 and Postal Car 3702 in wreck at the Oak Island Ballast Pit near Kentville, circa 1920.
Angus Shops, circa May 1924.
No. 32 location unknown. Early tender.
No. 32 freshly painted as "Blomidon" in "Land of Evangeline" paint scheme.
Locomotive No. 32 newly painted, 1937.
Locomotive No. 32 at the Kentville Station, circa 1940.
Locomotives No. 504 and No. 32 at the Kentville Station, circa 1940.
Model of No. 32 made in 1908, today displayed at the Wolfville Library located in the Wolfville Station.
Front end of the 1908 model of No. 32 displayed at the Wolfville Library located in the Wolfville Station.
Detail of the cylinder and name board of the 1908 model of No. 32 displayed at the Wolfville Library located in the Wolfville Station.
No. 32's number plate, Halifax, 2015.
Back of No. 32's number plate, 2015.
Other Known Images
- Gary W. Ness, Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 1), p. 6, (superb close-up portrait cinder work train in Kentville, circa 1938)
- Photo of locomotive on page 44, "A Dominion Atlantic Sojourn." Locomotive Quarterly, Spring 1998., photo collection of Kenneth S. MacDonald.
- M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 10 (in Kentville, newly painted)
- McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-4003 (Builders photo); N-4002 (in Kentville yard shunting observation car) and N-4005 (at Kentville Station)
- Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-8352 (at Kentville station).
- Merrilees Collection, Library and Archives Canada, Vol. 5059
References and Footnotes
- ↑ Omer Lavallée lists 60" drivers, as does the February 1908 The Railway and Marine World article, but the C.P.R., M.P. 14 Motive Power Rosters, 1938 lists 63" drivers
- ↑ "Dominion Atlantic Ry. Locomotives, The Railway and Marine World 1908 February
- ↑ Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List
- Jim O'Donnell, Dominion Atlantic Locomotive Roster
- Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, p. 348, 352.
- Gary W. Ness, Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 1), p. 6.
