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Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 24 "La Tour"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0
Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in May 1898.
- Builder No. 15924
- 18" x 24" cylinders
- 66" drivers.
"La Tour" was the first locomotive ordered and delivered new for the DAR.
It was scrapped in Kentville in November, 1939.(1)
Name Origin: Charles Latour Governor of Acadia, 1638.
Gallery
La Tour, Locomotive No. 24.
Other Known Photographs:
- McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-3992, in scrapline at Kentville
- Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-15259
References and Footnotes
(1) Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
(2) M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 39
Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348, 352
