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.

Built for the Intercolonial Railway.

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. 2 "Hiawatha" in 1893.

It was later sold to the New Brunswick Railway.(1)

Name Origin: Longfellow's epic poem "Hiawatha".

References and Footnotes

Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"

Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List

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

Known Photographs:

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