DAR0008

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 8 "Weymouth"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Portland Works in August 1879.

• Builder No. 354
• 16" x 24" cylinders
• 60" drivers.

This was orginally a Western Counties Railway locomotive but retained it's number and name after being acquired by the DAR.

It was scrapped sometime before 1920.

Name Origin: Weymouth, a major station on the WCR.

Gallery

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  WCR No. 8 in Digby

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  "Weymouth" at Digby. Same as other photo but cropped and higher resolution.

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  No. 8 in snow. Number plate is now light numeral on dark field. Stack has lost its spark arrestor.

Known Photographs:

• Gary W. Ness in Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume One) on page 3, showing No. 8 in Digby and (Volume Two) page 5, showing No. 8 Weymouth, in Weymouth.
• McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-3972
• Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-18226

References and Footnotes

Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"

Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List

Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348.