DAR0044

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 44 (2nd)

Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0

Built by Canadian Locomotive Works at Kingston, Ontario in June 1913.

• Builder No. 1195
• 21" x 26" cylinders
• 66" drivers
• Boiler Pressure: 190 psi
• Total Weight: 283,000 lbs
• 52' wheelbase length

This was the second of two DAR locomotives numbered 44, the first being No. 44 1st, later No. 502. The second No. 44 was built in 1913 for the Quebec Central Railway (another subsidairy of the CPR) as locomotive No. 44. It was not a standard CPR ten wheeler but a special order of 4 ten wheelers built for the Quebec Central. No. 44 was transferred to the DAR in April of 1942 by one source(1) or 1943 by others and kept its number as DAR No. 44. It was scrapped in March 1954.

Gallery

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  No. 44 at Bridgetown station in August of 1949.

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  No. 44 at Truro Roundhouse in Truro in April 1949.

Other Known Photographs:

• McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-4023 in Truro April 30, 1949 and N-4021 in Digby August 1953.
• In Windsor, NS, 1922 - Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-8359 and 8360 in Truro.
• Photo of locomotive on page 45, Locomotive Quarterly, Spring 1998, Vol XXI, Number 3, photo collection of Kenneth S. MacDonald.

References and Footnotes

(1)*January 1, 1941 CPR Motive Power Roster M.P. 14 at CPHA, page 15.

(2)

• Constructed in Kingston: A History of the Canadian Locomotives Companies 1854 to 1968 by Donald R. McQueen and William D. Thompson, No. 428-432, p. 194.
• Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348.
• Charles McBride "Dominion Atlantic Railway I" Locomotive List
• Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"