DAR0508

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 508.

Formerly No. 39 (2nd) "Lescarbot"

This class D6a locomotive was built by Alco-Schenectady in November 1902, #26755, as 934 Class ST9. It was renumbered 508, Class D6a, in December 1908. It was simpled in May 1911 and was transferred to Dominion Atlantic as 508 in August 1923, at first renumbered as DAR No. 39. It was returned to CP in 1937 but continued to run on the DAR. It retired in May 1947 and was scrapped.(1)

It was officially listed as a C.P.R. locomotive in 1941 (2) and in 1947 (3).

Gallery

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  Locomotive No. 508 at Truro in 1943.

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  Locomotive No. 508 at Windsor in 1945.

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  Locomotive No. 508 at Truro in 1947.

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  Locomotive No. 508 at Truro.

References and Footnotes

• (2) 1941 Canadian Pacific Railway Summary Of Equipment, Form M.P. 14 - January 1, 1941, page 10.
• (3) Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Railway Diagrams and Data (Steam Locomotives), page 10.

External Links

• (1) Photo of No. 508 at Don's Depot.

Canada Science and Technology Museum photo number STR03436a
Canada Science and Technology Museum photo number STR03437a
Canada Science and Technology Museum photo number STR08377a