DAR0024

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 24 "LaTour"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0 Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in May 1898.

Boiler pressure 185 psi.

"LaTour" was the first locomotive ordered and delivered new for the DAR.

It was scrapped in Kentville in November, 1939.(1)

Name Origin: Charles Latour Governor of Acadia, 1638.

Locomotive No. 24 with an westbound passenger train crossing the Gaspereaux River Bridge in Horton Landing, Aug 24, 1902.
Coloured postcard showing the Flying Bluenose leaving Hantsport crossing the Halfway River Bridge with passenger car No.27 "IRIS" and possibly baggage car No. 46 and locomotive No. 24, 1911.
LaTour, Locomotive No. 24 in Kentville, 1934.
DAR locomotive No. 24 "Latour" with DAR combine No. 33, probably in Digby, late 1930s.
No. 24 in the dead line at Kentville with No. 41, said to be 1937.
Locomotive 24 in the scrap line behind the Kentville Repair Shop with the Kentville Station in the background, circa 1939.
In the dead line at Kentville June 1939.

Other Known Photographs:

Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-15259 (This photo is the same as No. 24 above.) The museum data says Builder Number: 1564, Builder Date: 1882, Class: A-5-L, Disposition: SC 1930, Drivers: 62
Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR15259, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/STR15259/^[1]

(1) Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"

(2) M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 39