DAR0015

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 15 "Annapolis"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Portland Works in January 1892.

• Builder No. 623
• 17" x 24" cylinders
• 66" drivers.

This was built as Yarmouth and Annapolis Railway (Western Counties Railway) locomotive No. 4 "Annapolis" and retained its name after being acquired by the DAR.

It was scrapped sometime before 1920.

Name Origin: Annapolis, the town which the Western Counties Railway (briefly renamed in its final years as the Yarmouth and Annapolis Railway) sought to connect to its Yarmouth based line. Locomotive No. 29 also bore this name.

Gallery

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  "Annapolis" at Digby.

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  "Annapolis".

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  DAR Locomotive No. 15 "Annapolis", circa 1895.

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  DAR locomotive No. 15 "Annapolis" with passenger train and two crew at unknown location, circa 1895.

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  Dominion Atlantic locomotive No. 15 "Annapolis" at the platform of the ICR wooden Truro Station circa 1910.

Known Photographs:

• McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-3981
• Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-9881
• Canada Science and Technology Museum, STR Collection, Jenkins Photo

References and Footnotes

Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"

Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List

Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348.