DAR0002

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 2 "Hiawatha"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Kingston Locomotive Works in 1866.

• Builder No. 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.

Jim O'Donnell, Charles McBride and J. B. King all record that this locomotive became DAR No. 2 "Hiawatha" in 1894.(1) J. B. King indicates that it was later sold to the New Brunswick Railway.

However The history of the Kingston Locomotive Works indicates that W&AR No. 3 was sold to the New Brunswick Railway in 1881 and scrapped in 1890, before it ever became a DAR locomotive.(2)

Name Origin: The namesake hero of William Longfellow's popular 1855 epic poem "Song of Hiawatha".

Gallery

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  Number 2 at Yarmouth, unknown date.

Known Photographs:

• Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR18223 [1]

References and Footnotes

(1)

• Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
• Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List
• J.B. King, "Windsor & Annapolis Railway Motive Power Presents Thorny Problems", Halifax Chronicle Herald, Sat. May 24, 1958, p. 20

(2) Constructed in Kingston: A History of the Canadian Locomotives Companies 1854 to 1968 by Donald R. McQueen and William D. Thompson, No. 63-64, p. 166.