DAR000016

Dominion Atlantic Railway Coach No. 16, Josephine.

No. 16 was built as a First Class Coach by Rhodes, Curry & Co. 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)

Listed in the C.P.R. M.P. 14 1950 in the D.A.R. section, this car was wood, 73' 10 3/4" and had seating capacity of 64 people. (3)

Gallery

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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.

References and Footnotes

• (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

External Links

• (3) *January 1, 1950 CPR Motive Power Roster M.P. 14 at CPHA.