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

It was later sold to the New Brunswick Railway

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