DAR000016

Dominion Atlantic Railway Coach No. 16 "Josephine"

No. 16 was built as a First Class Coach by Rhodes Curry in Amherst in 1904 and was a sister car to No. 17 "Madeleine".(1) One of the last of the DAR wooden passenger cars, "Josephine" ended its days as as storm window store behind the Kentville paint shop and was scrapped in March 1958.(2)

References

(1)"Dominion Atlantic Railway Chronology of Passenger Car Purchases", Library and Archives Canada, Merrilees Collection, MG 31 NA A10, Vol. 55-4

(2)Harold Jenkins, Letter Feb. 17, 1958, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, RG28 Series S, Vol. 186

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  Coach No. 24 and No. 16 at Kentville in August 1949.

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  Coach No. 16 at Kentville in August 1951.

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  Coach No. 16 and No. 24 at Kentville on July 3, 1954.