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DAR0040
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 40 (1st) "Evangeline" ~ 1917-1918
Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0
Built Schenectady Locomotive Works, Schenectady, New York in November 1902.
- Builder No. 26760
- 20" x 26" cylinders
- 63" drivers.
- 54' 6" engine and tender wheelbase length
- CPR Class: D6a
Perhaps the shortest serving DAR named and numbered locomotive, it was built as Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive No. 939, renumbered as CPR No. 513 in 1907.[1] It was transferred to the DAR in October 1917 and became DAR No. 40, "Evangeline" but only for a very short time as it was returned to the CPR and numbered back to CPR No. 513 in May 1918.
Name Origins:
- Evangeline, the heroine of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem of the same name. Earlier used by locomotive, DAR No. 14 and later used by the second DAR No. 40/No. 537.
Gallery
References and Footnotes
- ↑ Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 258, 294 & 348.
- Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 40 (2nd) “Evangeline” ~ 1918-1937
Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0
Built by North British Locomotive Company at Glasgow. Scotland in December 1903.
- Builder No. 16051
- 21" x 26" cylinders
- 63" drivers
- 53' wheelbase length, engine and tender
- CPR Class:
The DAR's second locomotive No. 40 was built by the North British Locomotive Company in 1903 as CPR 998. It was renumbered 537 in 1908. It was transferred to the DAR May 1918 as the second DAR No. 40, taking the name and number of the first No. 40. In May 1937, it was renumbered as DAR No. 537 as the DAR shifted to CPR style numbers and later scrapped in 1939. See DAR No. 537 for details of its later career.
Name Origin: See Above
Gallery
“Evangeline (II)” at Windsor circa 1922.
Other Known Photographs of this locomotive number as No. 40:
- Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR18249, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/STR18249/[1]
References and Footnotes
- Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, pages 258, 294, 348.
- Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
- 1941 Canadian Pacific Railway Summary Of Equipment, Form M.P. 14 - January 1, 1941, page 15.
