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DAR0033
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 33, Glooscap
Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0
Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in November 1907.
- Builder Serial No. 32258
- 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: 205,000 lbs.
See article "Dominion Atlantic Ry. Locomotives, The Railway and Marine World 1908 February for detailed specifications.
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". 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]
No. 33 was damaged in a serious wreck near Hantsport in 1919.[3] 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.[4] No. 33 was put into storage in 1933 and scrapped in late October 1938[5][6]
Name Origin: Heroic spiritual figure of Nova Scotia's Mi'kmaq people
Gallery
Article "Dominion Atlantic Ry. Locomotives, The Railway and Marine World 1908 February about No. 32 and No. 33's arrival.
No. 33 at Wolfville Station on maiden run of No. 33 on the DAR, circa 1907.
Crowds gather around the still-steaming wreck of Locomotive No. 33 near Hantsport, April 5, 1919.
Baggage and passenger cars derailed after Locomotive No. 33 went off the track near Hantsport, April 5, 1919.
Locomotive No. 33, baggage, express and passenger coaches derailed near Hantsport, April 5, 1919.
Locomotive No. 33 derailed with baggage and express cars near Hantsport, April 5, 1919.
Wrecking train arrives to clear the tracks after Locomotive No. 33 derails near Hantsport, April 5, 1919.
No. 33 and caboose 435786 at Kingsport Beach, at the head of the Kingsport Wharf, circa 1920s.
Locomotive No. 33, an unknown date and location.
“Glooscap” at Kentville in May 1929.
No. 33. Unknown date and location.
Six-year-old Bill Young at Waterville with father Vaughan Young in the cab of DAR locomotive 33 "Glooscap", mid 1920s.
DAR locomotive No. 33 "Glooscap" shunting boxcar No. 1267, probably on the Digby Wharf, late 1930s.
No. 33 "Glooscap" at an unknown location, probably Kentville.
“Glooscap” in the scrap line at Kentville in July 1938.
No. 33 in Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives.
No. 33 front number plate in private collection.
No. 33 front number plate in private collection.
Other Known Photographs
- Photo of locomotive on page 44, "A Dominion Atlantic Sojourn." Locomotive Quarterly, Spring 1998., 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Photograph and notes in Leon Barron Collection.
- ↑ Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 1), Gary Ness (page 6)
- ↑ George Bishop "Railway Notes", Kentville Advertiser, Oct. 16, 1938.
- ↑ 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.
