DAR0033

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 33, Glooscap.

Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0

Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in November 1907.

• Builder No. 32258
• 19" x 24" cylinders
• 63" drivers(1)
• Class: 10-32-0

This engine was built in 1907 by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia for the DAR and was identical to her sister No. 32 "Blomidon". After the CPR takeover of the DAR No. 33 and 32 were frequently used on the Kentville-Kingsport run pulling the School Trains.(2) No. 33 was put into storage in 1933 and scrapped in late October 1938(3)&(4)

Name Origin: Heroic spirtual figure of Nova Scotia's Mi'kmaq people

Gallery

• Dar0033a.jpg

  No. 33 at Wolfville Station circa 1907 to 1911.

Other Known Photographs:

• Photo of locomotive on page 44, Locomotive Quarterly, Spring 1998, Vol XXI, Number 3, photo collection of Kenneth S. MacDonald.
• McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-4007 (May 1929, Land of Evangeline paint scheme); N-4008 (Glooscap in wreck, 1936) and N-4009 (with Van and crew)
• Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, N-9887
• George Warden Collection, Musquodoboit Railway Museum, MRM76.1.495

References and Footnotes

(1) Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster" (Jim lists 63" drivers vs 60" in Omer Lavallée list.)

(2) Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume 1), Gary Ness (page 6)

(3) George Bishop "Railway Notes", Kentville Advertiser, Oct. 16, 1938.

(4)M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 10 (in Kentville, newly painted)

Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, p. 348, 352.