DAR0001

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 1 "Queen Mab"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Rogers Locomotive Works in 1860

• Builder No.: 1691
• Cylinders: 12" x 24"
• Drivers: 56"

Began as Atlanta Railroad, named "Westpointe" and "LaGrange".

Sold to Fredericton Branch Railway, named "L.A. Wilmot".

Sold to the Cornwallis Valley Railway as No. 1 in 1888.

Became Windsor & Annapolis Railway No. 13 in 1890.

Became DAR No. 1 in 1894.

Name Origin: Queen Mab is a fairy referred to in William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, one of several Shakespearian names chosen by the Windsor and Annapolis and inherited by the Dominion Atlantic.

Gallery

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  "Queen Mab" at Windsor with a gypsum train (1).

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  bit sharper of image 1

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  another copy of image 1

Known Photographs:

• McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-3966
• Nick & Hemlma Mika An Illustrated History of Canadian Railways, p. 137

References and Footnotes

Jim O'Donnell, Dominion Atlantic Locomotive Roster

Charles McBride "Dominion Atlantic Railway I" Locomotive List

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

External Links

"Rogers Locomotives: A Brief History and Construction List", Peter Moshein, Robert R. Rothfus, Railroad History, No. 167 (AUTUMN 1992), pp. 12-147, JSTOR