DAR0528

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 528 "Champlain"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0

Built by North British Locomotive Company at Glasgow. Scotland in November 1903.

• Builder No. 16042
• 21" x 26" cylinders
• 63" drivers
• 53' wheelbase length, engine and tender
• CPR Class:

Built as CPR No. 528, it was first loaned and then transferred to the DAR in 1937 and was given the name "Champlain", previously used by No. 520. No. 528 was scrapped in May 1947.

Name Origin: Samuel Champlain, famous explorer and one of the founders of Acadia in 1604.

Gallery

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  DAR locomotive No. 528 with a snow crew shoveling out the line at Middleton, April 1, 1929.

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  Locomotive No. 528 in storage or scrap line at Toronto, circa 1947.

Known Photographs of this locomotive:

• At Windsor, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, Photo No. STR09889a
• At Toronto Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, Photo No. STR03443a

References and Footnotes

• Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"