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DAR0500
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 500, Membertou.
According to Gary Ness on page 7 of "Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 1)" and page 9 in Volume 2, this is a 4-6-0 D6a built in 1902 by Schenectady Locomotive Works, Schenectady, New York. It was the first of 60 D6a class locomotives for the C.P.R. Most likely transferred to the D.A.R. from the C.P.R. in 1917 it was not officially sold to the D.A.R. until 1937. It was scrapped in 1940.
Gallery
A DAR extra with a ski excursion at Ellershouse with locomotive No. 500, Feb. 23, 1936.
No. 500 in Halifax in June 1936.
At Kentville in DAR livery. Date unknown.
Snow plow No. 907 being rebuilt, with DAR No. 500 on the Kentville Scrap Line, Sept. 9, 1937.
Other known pictures:
Canada Science and Technology Museum image STR04028a.
Canada Science and Technology Museum image STR08368a.
