DAR0002

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 2, "Hiawatha"

Built by Kingston Locomotive Works in 1866.

• Builder No. 63-64
• 12" x 22" cylinders
• 60" drivers.

Began as Nova Scotia Railway No. 23.

Later Intercolonial Railway No. 23.

Rebuilt by Portland Works with 12 x 24" cylinders in 1875 and traded to the Windsor & Annapolis Railway where it became W&A No. 3, part of a swap of nine standard gauge ICR locomotives for nine broad gauge W&A locomotives in a government plan to standardize gauges.

Became DAR No. 1 "Hiawatha" in 1893 *

Later sold to the New Brunswick Railway

• McQuinn Collection at the Canada Science and Technology Museum says it also bore the name "George B. Doane".

References and Footnotes

J.B. King, "Windsor & Annapolis Railway Motive Power Presents Throny Problems", Halifax Chronicle Herald, Sat. May 24, 1958, p. 20

McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-18223