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==Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive No. 26 "President", "Governor Cox", "Kent"==
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==Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive No. 26 "President", "Wolfville", "Governor Cox", "Kent"==
 
[[Image:DAR0026e.jpg|thumb|220px|right|No. 26, in Kentville circa 1937]]
 
[[Image:DAR0026e.jpg|thumb|220px|right|No. 26, in Kentville circa 1937]]
  
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*Builder No. 18998
 
*Builder No. 18998
 
*18" x 24" cylinders
 
*18" x 24" cylinders
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*66" drivers.
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*66" drivers
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*45 ft. 8 1/2 in. wheel base, total engine and tender
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*182,000 lbs. total weight engine and tender
  
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No.26 was the last [[:Category:4-4-0|4-4-0]] on the DAR and after an eventful career it became a much photographed relic from earlier days during its final years working light duties out of [[Kentville]]. The locomotive was built by Baldwin for the DAR in 1901 and was a near twin to [[DAR0025|No. 25]].
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(More design detailed specifications for No. 26 are shown in the article at: [[The Railway and Shipping World - 1902-02 - DAR Locomotive ''President''|''The Railway and Shipping World'' February 1902]].)
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In 1915, No. 26 with engineer Ben Hartlen fought an epic three day battle against 26 foot snow drifts at [[Grafton]] on the [[:Category:Subdivision Weston| North Mountain Line.]]<ref>[[Bishop, George|George Bishop]] "Railway Notes", ''Kentville Advertiser'', March 2, 1939.</ref>
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This locomotive had a long, eventful career and survived to be the last [[:Category:4-4-0|4-4-0]] on the DAR, becoming a much-photographed veteran  from the DAR's earlier days during its final years working light duties out of [[Kentville]].
  
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On October 12, 1920, No. 26 was being driven by engineer Harry Walsh and fireman Fred Yould as the lead locomotive in a double headed freight from [[Truro]] with [[DAR0027|No. 27]]. Both engines were badly wrecked after striking pigs or a cow at high speed at [[Lower Truro]]. Fireman Fred Yould was killed.<ref>J.B. King "Pigs Ditch 2 Engines, Kill Midland Fireman: Writers Discourse on DAR Old Timers", ''Halifax Chronicle Herald''.</ref>
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No. 26 was ordered directly from Baldwin in 1901 by the DAR, intended for passenger service.<ref>[[The Railway and Shipping World - 1902-02 - DAR Locomotive ''President''|''The Railway and Shipping World'' 1902 February]]</ref> and was a near twin to [[DAR0025|No. 25]].
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In 1915, No. 26 with engineer Ben Hartlen fought an epic three day battle against 26 foot snow drifts at [[Grafton]] on the [[:Category:Subdivision Weston| North Mountain Line.]]<ref>[[Bishop, George|George Bishop]] "Railway Notes", [[:Category:Advertiser|''Kentville Advertiser'']], March 2, 1939.</ref>
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On October 12, 1920, No. 26 was being driven by engineer William Rawding and fireman Fred Yould as the lead locomotive in a double headed freight from [[Windsor]] to [[Truro]] with [[DAR0027|No. 27]]. No. 26 struck two cows at high speed at [[Lower Truro]], a mile and a half from Truro. Fireman Fred Yould on No. 26 was killed and William Rawding was badly scalded but recovered.<ref>"Train Hit Cows and Left Track", ''The Morning Chronicle'', Oct. 13, 1920, p. 4</ref> <ref>[[J. B. King]], "Writers Discourse on DAR Old Timers", ''Halifax Chronicle Herald'', undated.</ref> No. 27 was so baldy damaged that it had to be scrapped but No. 26 was rebuilt and returned to service.
 
   
 
   
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No. 26 was rebuilt and served for many more years under three different names. Working its final days as the DAR’s last 4-4-0 it worked as a switcher in the [[Kentville Railyard]] and pulled the school train to [[Kingsport]]. It was scrapped in [[Kentville]] in 1941.<ref>[[McBride, Charles|Charles McBride]] DAR Locomotive List</ref>
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No. 26 served for many more years under three different names. On July 19, 1923, No. 26 led a special train from [[Halifax]] to [[Yarmouth]] for the visit of Massachusetts Governor Channing H. Cox consisting of the [[DARNOVASCOTIA|DAR business car "Nova Scotia"]] and a CNR private car.<ref>''Halifax Herald'', July 20, 1923. Research by Carfl Riff</ref> No. 26 was named "Governor Cox" in honour of the special visit. A month later No. 26 assisted DAR locomotive [[DAR0043|No. 43 "Byng"]] in moving the large special train for the visit of the Governor General from [[Windsor]] to [[Kentville]].<ref>''Halifax Herald'', Aug. 8, 1923. Carl Riff research</ref> Channing Cox made a second visit to Nova Scotia in 1924 and No. 26 again hauled the official train from [[Halifax]] through the valley to [[Digby]] on July 27, 1924 and on to [[Yarmouth]] on July 28 where Cox took the steamer ''Northland'' for Boston.<ref>''Halifax Herald'', July 28, 1925. Carl Riff clippings research</ref>
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In 1929, No. 26 was renamed "Kent" as part of the DAR's historical theme locomotive names. Working its final days as the DAR’s last 4-4-0 it worked as a switcher in the [[Kentville Railyard]] and pulled the school train to [[Kingsport]]. It was scrapped in [[Kentville]] in 1941.<ref>[[McBride, Charles|Charles McBride]] DAR Locomotive List</ref>
  
 
===Names===
 
===Names===
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No. 26 was first given the name "President".  In the 1920s, the locomotive was renamed "Governor Cox" and by 1929 it was named "Kent".
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* "President": uncertain name origin given in 1901
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* "Wolfville": named in honour of the town of [[Wolfville]] in fall 1922<ref>''The Acadian'', Nov. 2, 1922, courtesy Chris Gertridge. Also mentioned in a letter from James O'Donnell to Harold Jenkins April 16, 198</ref>
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Name Origins:  
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* "Governor Cox": named after Massachusetts Governor Channing H. Cox in July 1923.<ref>''Halifax Herald'', Aug. 8, 1923. Carl Riff research</ref> 
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* "President": uncertain
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* "Kent": Edward Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria, military commander in Nova Scotia.<ref>''[[Highlights of Nova Scotia History]]'', Dominion Atlantic Railway booklet, First edition, 1929</ref>
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* "Governor Cox": Nicholas Cox, British Army officer in colonial Nova Scotia, later Lt. Governor of Gaspe
 
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* "Kent": Edward Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria, military commander in Nova Scotia
 
  
 
==Gallery==
 
==Gallery==
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Image:DAR0026d.jpg|[[DAR0026|No. 26]] "President", builder's photo, 1901.
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GertridgeKent26.jpg|Builder's Photo of [[DAR0026|Locomotive No. 26 "President"]], April 1901.
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Image:DAR0026d.jpg|[[DAR0026|No. 26]] "President", touched-up builder's photo, 1901.
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File:DARFeb1902p71.jpg|[[The Railway and Shipping World - 1902-02 - DAR Locomotive ''President''|"DAR Locomotive "President" ", ''The Railway and Shipping World'' 1902 February]]
 
Image:DAR0026c.jpg|DAR No. 26 "President", circa 1910.
 
Image:DAR0026c.jpg|DAR No. 26 "President", circa 1910.
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Image:DAR Wreck 1.jpg|Double header wreck, 1920 at [[Lower Truro]] involving [[DAR0026|No. 26]] and [[DAR0027|27]].
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File:Kalkman30.jpg|[[DAR0026|DAR Engine No. 26 "President"]] at unknown location, circa 1915.
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Image:DAR Wreck 2.jpg|Double header wreck, 1920 at [[Lower Truro]] involving [[DAR0026|No. 26]] and [[DAR0027|27]].
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File:Kalkman29.jpg|[[DAR0026|DAR Engine No. 26]] at unknown location, possibly the [[Digby Wharf]], circa 1920.
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Image:DAR_No26-Governor_Cox_.jpg|DAR No  26 Governor Cox 1920's
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Image:DAR Wreck 1.jpg|Double header wreck at [[Lower Truro]] involving [[DAR0026|No. 26]] and [[DAR0027|27]] with [[DAR000801|DAR wrecking crane No. 801]], Oct. 12, 1920.
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Image:DAR Wreck 2.jpg|Double header wreck, Oct. 12, 1920 at [[Lower Truro]] involving [[DAR0026|No. 26]] and [[DAR0027|27]].
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File:Tidentimes1.jpg|[[Lower Truro]] wreck on Oct. 12, 1920 with locomotives [[DAR0026|No. 26]] and [[DAR0027|No. 27]].
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File:Tidentimes2.jpg|[[Lower Truro]] wreck on Oct. 12, 1920 with locomotives [[DAR0026|No. 26]] and [[DAR0027|No. 27]].
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File:Kalkman28.jpg|[[DAR0026|No. 26, "Governor Cox"]] with a [[DAR003858|Baggage Express Car No. 3858]] in official train for Governor of Massachusetts Channing Cox at [[Yarmouth]] on either July 21, 1923 or July 28, 1924.
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Image:DAR_No26-Governor_Cox_.jpg|DAR No  26 Governor Cox at the [[Windsor Water Tower]], circa June 1924.
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Image:Highlightskent.jpg|Page from ''[[Highlights of Nova Scotia History]]'', showing the history of No. 26's name, "Kent", 1929.
 
Image:DAR0026b.jpg|Kent, locomotive [[DAR0026|No. 26]], circa 1930.
 
Image:DAR0026b.jpg|Kent, locomotive [[DAR0026|No. 26]], circa 1930.
 
Image:DAR0026a.jpg|No. 26 "Kent" June 18, 1936 at [[Kentville]].
 
Image:DAR0026a.jpg|No. 26 "Kent" June 18, 1936 at [[Kentville]].
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File:DAR26&547.jpg|[[DAR0026|locomotive No. 26]] with [[DAR0547|locomotive No. 547]] at [[Digby]] with the [[Digby Water Tower]], circa 1937.
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File:CSTM-MAT003597.jpg|Locomotive [[DAR0026|No. 26]], by the [[Kentville Water Tower]] with [[Train No. 13|Train No. 13 Train to Kingsport]], 1937.
 
Image:DAR0026e.jpg|[[DAR0026|No. 26]] "Kent" at Kentville, circa 1937.
 
Image:DAR0026e.jpg|[[DAR0026|No. 26]] "Kent" at Kentville, circa 1937.
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Image:Highlightskent.jpg|Page from ''[[Highlights of Nova Scotia History]]'', showing the history of No. 26's name, "Kent"
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File:CSTM-STR08349a 001 aa cs.jpg|[[DAR0026|No. 26]] "Kent" at the [[Kentville Station]], circa 1938.
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File:McBride1page52B.jpg|DAR [[DAR0026|locomotive No. 26]] in the [[Kentville Scrap Line]], circa 1941.
 
</gallery>
 
</gallery>
  
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Other Known Photographs:
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==Other Known Images==
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* [http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=16592&lang=en Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, STR08349 (in Kentville, circa 1940, lettered "Kent", W. Rawdingson in cab, photo by M. Acham)]
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* Ingenium Archives, Aubrey Mattingly Transportation Collection, MAT-01618, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/MAT-01618/<ref>Permalink: https://files.ingeniumcanada.org/items/arch/93/MAT-01618_c04bda8cd1d8082a1d588e77670c6f799cb905be.jpeg</ref>
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* [http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=87096&lang=en Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, STR03996a.]
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* Ingenium Archives, Aubrey Mattingly Transportation Collection, MAT-03597, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/MAT-03597/ <ref>Permalink: https://files.ingeniumcanada.org/items/arch/95/MAT-03597_d86f3e5a43fd4dd209a74f0211a05368b7f60275.jpeg</ref>
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* [http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=228783&lang=en Mattingly Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, MAT003597.]
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* Photo of locomotive on page 43, [[Locomotive Quarterly, Spring 1998, Vol XXI, Number 3|"A Dominion Atlantic Sojourn." Locomotive Quarterly, Spring 1998.]], photo collection of [[:Category:Kenneth S. Macdonald Collection|Kenneth S. MacDonald]].
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* Photo of locomotive on page 43, Locomotive Quarterly, Spring 1998, Vol XXI, Number 3, photo collection of [[:Category:Kenneth S. Macdonald Photo|Kenneth S. Macdonald]].
 
 
* [[M. Allen Gibson]], ''[[Train Time]]'', Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 22 (leaving Kentville for Kingsport, 1937)
 
* [[M. Allen Gibson]], ''[[Train Time]]'', Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 22 (leaving Kentville for Kingsport, 1937)
 
* Bruce Nett, ''The Dominion Atlantic Railway Times'', (Summer 1994) page 3: top (builders photo 1901 lettered "President"); middle (lettered Governor Cox, c. 1920s), bottom (lettered Kent, 1930s)
 
* Bruce Nett, ''The Dominion Atlantic Railway Times'', (Summer 1994) page 3: top (builders photo 1901 lettered "President"); middle (lettered Governor Cox, c. 1920s), bottom (lettered Kent, 1930s)
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==External Links==
 
==External Links==
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[http://www.steamlocomotive.com/locobase.php?country=Canada&wheel=4-4-0&railroad=da#11514 Interesting details about this locomotive at steamlocomotive.com]
  
 
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Latest revision as of 14:22, 18 October 2024

Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive No. 26 "President", "Wolfville", "Governor Cox", "Kent"

No. 26, in Kentville circa 1937

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in March 1901.

  • Builder No. 18998
  • 18" x 24" cylinders
  • 66" drivers
  • 45 ft. 8 1/2 in. wheel base, total engine and tender
  • 182,000 lbs. total weight engine and tender

(More design detailed specifications for No. 26 are shown in the article at: The Railway and Shipping World February 1902.)

This locomotive had a long, eventful career and survived to be the last 4-4-0 on the DAR, becoming a much-photographed veteran from the DAR's earlier days during its final years working light duties out of Kentville.

No. 26 was ordered directly from Baldwin in 1901 by the DAR, intended for passenger service.[1] and was a near twin to No. 25.

In 1915, No. 26 with engineer Ben Hartlen fought an epic three day battle against 26 foot snow drifts at Grafton on the North Mountain Line.[2]

On October 12, 1920, No. 26 was being driven by engineer William Rawding and fireman Fred Yould as the lead locomotive in a double headed freight from Windsor to Truro with No. 27. No. 26 struck two cows at high speed at Lower Truro, a mile and a half from Truro. Fireman Fred Yould on No. 26 was killed and William Rawding was badly scalded but recovered.[3] [4] No. 27 was so baldy damaged that it had to be scrapped but No. 26 was rebuilt and returned to service.

No. 26 served for many more years under three different names. On July 19, 1923, No. 26 led a special train from Halifax to Yarmouth for the visit of Massachusetts Governor Channing H. Cox consisting of the DAR business car "Nova Scotia" and a CNR private car.[5] No. 26 was named "Governor Cox" in honour of the special visit. A month later No. 26 assisted DAR locomotive No. 43 "Byng" in moving the large special train for the visit of the Governor General from Windsor to Kentville.[6] Channing Cox made a second visit to Nova Scotia in 1924 and No. 26 again hauled the official train from Halifax through the valley to Digby on July 27, 1924 and on to Yarmouth on July 28 where Cox took the steamer Northland for Boston.[7]

In 1929, No. 26 was renamed "Kent" as part of the DAR's historical theme locomotive names. Working its final days as the DAR’s last 4-4-0 it worked as a switcher in the Kentville Railyard and pulled the school train to Kingsport. It was scrapped in Kentville in 1941.[8]

Names

  • "President": uncertain name origin given in 1901
  • "Wolfville": named in honour of the town of Wolfville in fall 1922[9]
  • "Governor Cox": named after Massachusetts Governor Channing H. Cox in July 1923.[10]
  • "Kent": Edward Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria, military commander in Nova Scotia.[11]

Gallery

Other Known Images

References and Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Railway and Shipping World 1902 February
  2. ↑ George Bishop "Railway Notes", Kentville Advertiser, March 2, 1939.
  3. ↑ "Train Hit Cows and Left Track", The Morning Chronicle, Oct. 13, 1920, p. 4
  4. ↑ J. B. King, "Writers Discourse on DAR Old Timers", Halifax Chronicle Herald, undated.
  5. ↑ Halifax Herald, July 20, 1923. Research by Carfl Riff
  6. ↑ Halifax Herald, Aug. 8, 1923. Carl Riff research
  7. ↑ Halifax Herald, July 28, 1925. Carl Riff clippings research
  8. ↑ Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List
  9. ↑ The Acadian, Nov. 2, 1922, courtesy Chris Gertridge. Also mentioned in a letter from James O'Donnell to Harold Jenkins April 16, 198
  10. ↑ Halifax Herald, Aug. 8, 1923. Carl Riff research
  11. ↑ Highlights of Nova Scotia History, Dominion Atlantic Railway booklet, First edition, 1929
  12. ↑ Permalink: https://files.ingeniumcanada.org/items/arch/93/MAT-01618_c04bda8cd1d8082a1d588e77670c6f799cb905be.jpeg
  13. ↑ Permalink: https://files.ingeniumcanada.org/items/arch/95/MAT-03597_d86f3e5a43fd4dd209a74f0211a05368b7f60275.jpeg

External Links

Interesting details about this locomotive at steamlocomotive.com

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