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W&ARLightning
Windsor and Annapolis Railway Steam Locomotive "Lightning"
- Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0
- Built by: Schenectady Locomotive Works
- Date: 10/1853
- Builder No.:
- Cylinders: 14" x 22"
- Drivers: 66"
- Wheelbase length, (engine and tender): xx' yy"
- Length of Wheel base xx' yy" inches
- Do. to centre of Bogie xx' yy"
- Do. of Bogie xx' yy"
- Overall pilot to tender coupler length: xx' yy"
- Name Origin:
“Lightning”, purchased used from the Great Western Railway in 1871[1], was driven down by Legge, the Locomotive Foreman and lost its lefthand trailing driving wheel near Brownville. The part flew off and buried itself in a snowy field, causing an intensive search that took two days.[2]
This broad gauge "Lightning" was traded to the Canadian Government's Intercolonial Railway in 1875 when the Windsor & Annapolis changed to standard gauge.
Gallery
Lighting, a broad gauge locomotive in front of the W&AR Kentville Engine House and Machine Shop in 1872.
Lighting, a broad gauge locomotive in front of the W&AR Kentville Engine House and Machine Shop in 1872.
References and Footnotes
External Links
Page 98 https://www.exporail.org/can_rail/Canadian%20Rail_no459_1997.pdf
