DAR0014

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 14, "Evangeline"

This early DAR locomotive had a wide-ranging history of ownership.

It was built by Kingston Locomotive Works at Kingston, Ontario in December 1866:

• Builder No. 55.
• 16" x 22" cylinders
• 66" drivers.

The first owner was the Nova Scotia Railway and it began its career as NSR No. 21. In 1874, the Nova Scotia Railway became part of the Intercolonial Railway and the locomotive became ICR No. 21.

No. 21 was rebuilt by Portland Works with 12 x 24" cylinders in 1875 and traded to the Windsor & Annapolis Railway where it became W&A No. 1 "Evangeline", part of a swap of nine standard gauge ICR locomotives for nine broad gauge W&A locomotives in a government plan to standardize gauges.(1)

The Windsor and Annapolis sold the locomotive to the New Brunswick Railway in 1881 where it became NBR No. 8. Canadian Pacific bought the New Brunswick Railway in 1890 and is believed to have renumbered the locomotive as CPR 487 until it was sold to the DAR in 1895.(3) Other sources indicate that it remained with the W&A.(3) In any case, the locomotive became DAR No. 14 "Evangeline" following the creation of the Dominion Atlantic. It was one of the locomotives assigned to pull the premier passenger train Flying Bluenose in 1893.(4) No. 14 was scrapped in 1911.(2)

Name Origins:

• Evangeline, the heroine of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem of the same name. Later used used by locomotives DAR No. 40 (1st) and No. 40(2nd).

Gallery

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  Windsor & Annapolis Railway Locomotive No. 1 "Evangeline", later DAR 14, circa 1875-1881.

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  "Evangeline".

Known Photographs

• McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-3980
• Canadian Science and Technology Museum Photo STR18231a from Collection STR, Jenkins Collection

References and Footnotes

(1) 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. 55, p. 166.

(3)Jim O'Donnell, Dominion Atlantic Locomotive Roster, p. 2

(4) Charles Thompson Smith, "The Dominion Atlantic and Nova Scotia" MA Thesis Acadia University August 1965, page 78.

Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, p. 239, p. 348