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Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 2528

Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-2

Built by the Canadian Pacific's Angus Shops in August of 1907.

22.5" x 28" cylinders
70" drivers.
64' 6" wheelbase length
75' 8" over couplers
Weight: 237,000 lbs loaded; 219,000 lbs light; 155,000 lbs on drivers^[1]
CPR Class: G2s

Removed from the D.A.R. 1957-02-01^[2]

Gallery

No. 2528 at the Bear River curve, circa 1956.
No. 2528 at the Bear River curve, circa 1950. (CSTM)
No. 2528 at Windsor on July 3, 1954.

References and Footnotes

↑ Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, p. 399
↑ From the daily notes of George Parks, Wendell Lemon, Atlantic Rails Facebook Group, March 23, 2020.

Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 2) by Gary Ness, page 18.

External Links

The same circa 1950 image of 2528 at the Bear River Curve with the original negative number for the Nova Scotia Information Bureau at the Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management collection.

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