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DAR0017
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 17 "Yarmouth".
Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0
Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in May 1893.
- Builder No. 13437
- 14 & 18 x 24" Vauclain compound cylinders as delivered, rebuilt March 1907 as 16.5" x 24" cylinders
- 66" drivers.
Built as the first of two identical locomotives (No. 18 was the second) for the Yarmouth and Annapolis Railway (the briefly renamed Western Counties Railway in 1893) as Y & A No. 5 "Yarmouth". It became DAR No. 17 "Yarmouth" in 1894.
It was scrapped in July 1923.
Name Origin: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, headquarters of the Western Counties Railway and western terminus of the DAR.
Gallery
Western Counties Railway Locomotive No. 5, later DAR No. 17 at Windsor, circa 1877-1879.
"Yarmouth" February 1906 or earlier .
No. 17 at the Wilmot Station in Wilmot March 1907 or later.
No. 17 location and date unknown.
DAR Locomotive No. 17 in gypsum service.
Other Known Photographs:
- Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-9882
References and Footnotes
- Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
- Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List
- Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348
