DAR0502

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 502 "Poutrincourt"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0

Built Schenectady Locomotive Works, Schenectady, New York in November 1902.

• Builder No. 26749
• 20" x 26" cylinders
• 63" drivers.
• 54' 6 1/2" wheelbase length
• CPR Class: D6a

This class D6a built in 1902. It joined the DAR in 1928 beginning as DAR No. 44 (1st). (See DAR No. 44 for earlier carerr details.) It was renumbered as DAR No. 502 in 1940. In the early 1940s, it was lettered "502 New Yorker" for service on the DAR's luxury boat train The New Yorker. It was scrapped in March 1946.

Name Origins:

• Jean de Biencourt, Baron de Poutrincourt, second governor of Acadia (1610-1615), later used by locomotive, DAR No. 518.

Gallery

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  No. 502 arriving at Lawrencetown c. 1924-26.

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  No. 502 arriving at Lawrencetown c. 1924-26.

References and Footnotes

• Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Railway Diagrams and Data (Steam Locomotives), page 3.

Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"

External Links

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