DAR0018

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 18 "Digby"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in May 1893.

• Builder No. 13438
• 14 & 18 x 24" Vauclain compound cylinders as delivered, rebuilt November 1907 as 16.5" x 24" cylinders
• 66" drivers.

Built as the second of two identical locomotives (No. 17 was the first) for the Yarmouth and Annapolis Railway (the briefly renamed Western Counties Railway in 1893) as Y & A No. 6 "Digby". It became DAR No. 18 in 1894, keeping its old name. As DAR No. 18, this locomotive had the honour of pulling the first DAR passenger train from Halifax to Yarmouth and return on October 1, 1894.

It was scrapped before 1920 according to Omer Lavallée (1) or in 1924 according to Andrew Merrilees.(2)

Name Origin: Digby, Nova Scotia, the eastern terminus of the Western Counties Railway and Yarmouth and Annapolis Railway.

Gallery

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  Yarmouth & Annapolis No. 6 (Western Counties) "Digby" builder's (Baldwin) photo. This locomotive became the DAR No. 18.

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  Locomotive No. 18 near Kentville Oct. 1, 1894.

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  General Manager W. R. Campbell posing with "Digby".

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  No. 18 leading train at Digby, circa 1894.

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  No. 18 with The Flying Bluenose near Kentville in 1896.

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  No. 18 at Bridgetown December 1907 or later.

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  "Digby" at Windsor in 1921.

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  Slightly sharper image of Digby at Windsor 1921

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  "Digby" at Mosher's Quarry, Windsor circa 1923.

Other Known Photographs:

• Gary W. Ness in Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume One) on page 4 arriving with first train to Yarmouth, 1894.
• Photo of loco on page 42, "A Dominion Atlantic Sojourn." Locomotive Quarterly, Spring 1998., photo collection of Kenneth S. MacDonald.
• Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, No. 18 in Kentville Oct. 1, 1894 en route to Yarmouth.
• McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa: N-3985 in Kentville with W.R. Campbell Oct. 1, 1894; N-3986 in Digby, 1895; and N-3987 in Annapolis Royal on bridge, 1909.
• Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-8345 (loading gypsum) and N-18233 (in Windsor)
• Library and Archives Canada / PA-211853

References and Footnotes

• (1) Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348
• (2) Andrew Merrilees Collection, Library and Archives Canada, photograph C-013768
• Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
• Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List

External Links

• Discussion on DARDPI Forum about Nos. 17 & 18
• Number 18 on timber trestle at Annapolis - Canada Science and Technology Museum, Images STR03987b and STR03987a.
• Number 18 with W.R. Campbell - Canada Science and Technology Museum, Image STR03985a.
• Number 18 approaching Digby Station, 1895 - Canada Science and Technology Museum, Image STR03986a