DAR0016

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 16 "Atalanta"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in March 1892.

• Builder No. 12544
• 17" x 24" cylinders
• 66" drivers.

This was built as Windsor and Annapolis Railway locomotive No. 14 "Atalanta" and became DAR No. 16 "Atalanta" in 1894.

It was scrapped in July 1923.

Name Origin: Huntress in Greek mythology.

Gallery

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  Locomotive No. 16 beside the Yarmouth Wharf circa 1900.

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  A slightly different view of No. 16 switching cars on the Yarmouth Wharf.

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  Locomotive No. 16 "Atlanta" at Hebron circa 1900.

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  Locomotive No. 16 "Atalanta at the Weston Station, unknown date.

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  "Atalanta" at Weston with driver Dan Deloughry.

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  Slightly sharper image with Driver Dan Deloughry.

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  "Atalanta" off the rails, approximately 1906. Location unknown.

Other Known Photographs:

• At Yarmouth, 1900, same image as above, but a much higher quality original DAR promotional photograph, is found at the Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, dated 1900 Acc# 1997-32, G.E. Lovett Collection.
• No. 16 at Weston with driver Dan Deloughry, Harold Jenkins photo McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-3983. This is another photo in sequence shot minutes after the No. 16 shot above in our wiki collection.
• Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-18232

References and Footnotes

Jim O'Donnell, "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"

Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List

Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348, 352

External Links

Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, Colourized postcard of DAR No. 16 at Yarmouth, circa 1935