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DAR0544
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 544 "Hebert"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0
Built by Sashsische Maschinenbau A.G., Chemnitz, Germany (Saxon Locomotive Machine Works) in November 1903.
- Builder No. 2831
- 20" x 26" cylinders
- 63" drivers
- 53' wheelbase length, engine and tender
- 63' 3" overall pilot to tender coupler
- CPR Class: D6d
Built as CPR No. 965, it was renumbered CPR 544 in April 1908. It arrived on the DAR by 1929[1] and was given the name "Herbert". The locomotive was transferred to DAR ownership in May 1937. It received a new boiler and a major rebuild in the DAR Kentville shops in January 1936.[2] It was and scrapped in April 1944.
Name Origin: Louis Hebert, apothecary with Champlain and DeMonts at Port Royal in 1604.[3]
Gallery
No. 544 with original CPR number in Saxon Engine works advertisement, circa 1906.
No. 544 at Windsor on March 25, 1933.
The Advertiser Jan. 28, 1965 photograph of Locomotive No. 544 on the Kentville Turntable with roundhouse and machine shop workers plus the . The Kentville Water Tower, circa 1930.
No. 544 at Halifax in June of 1936.
Hebert in Halifax, unknown date
DAR0544 with stack capped in the Kentville Scrap Line, circa 1943.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, pages 247, 349
- ↑ Links and Pins, "Railway Notes", Halifax Chronicle Herald January 18, 1936, Carl Riff Collection
- ↑ Highlights of Nova Scotia History Dominion Atlantic Railway (1929) First Edition, booklet about the name, number and historical names of DAR locomotives.
1941 Canadian Pacific Railway Summary Of Equipment, Form M.P. 14 - January 1, 1941, page 15.
External Links
No. 544. Ingenium Archives, Aubrey Mattingly Transportation Collection, MAT-00553
No. 544 at Windsor. Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR08391.
No. 544 at Moncton on February 1, 1940 with main rods removed on the way to or from maintenance, probably in Montreal. Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR08392.
No. 544 at unknown location. Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR03448
