DAR0530

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 530, Lescarbot.

This class D6b locomotive was built by the North British Locomotive Company in December 1903, #16044, as 991, Class ST12. It was renumbered 530, Class D6b, in January 1909 and simpled in November 1911. In May 1937 it became Dominion Atlantic 530 and was named "Lescarbot". It was retired in May 1945 and scrapped. (3)

It was officially listed as a D.A.R. locomotive in 1941 (1) but not in 1947 (2).

Gallery

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  Locomotive No. 530

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  Locomotive No. 530

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  No. 530 leading Train No. 98 express from Yarmouth to Kentville on Sept. 10, 1937 at Digby.

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  DAR locomotive No. 530 with the Digby yard crew making the first gypsum dump at the new trestle in the Deep Brook gypsum terminal, June 18, 1940.

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  No. 530 at Windsor.

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  No. 530 at Kentville.

References and Footnotes

• (1) 1941 Canadian Pacific Railway Summary Of Equipment, Form M.P. 14 - January 1, 1941, page 15.
• (2) Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Railway Diagrams and Data (Steam Locomotives), page 3.

External Links

• (3) Photo of No. 530. at Don's Depot.
• No. 530 with freight train. The tender is marked "Canadian Pacific" and there is no name plate. Canada Science and Technology Museum STR03444a. Broken link, may not exist?
• No. 530 with passenger train. (Is this at Falmouth?) Canada Science and Technology Museum image STR08381.
• No. 530 at Wolfville in 1938. Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR04037.
• No. 530 at Halifax in 1937. Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR04035.
• No. 530 at Moncton. Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR14499, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/STR14499/