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Image:DAR0470i.jpg|A well groomed [[DAR0470|No. 470]] at Kentville.
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Image:DAR0470i.jpg|A well groomed [[DAR0470|No. 470]] at Truro in February of 1948.
 
Image:CDCDA Man Train.jpg|Locomotive [[DAR0470|No. 470]] delivers the mail at [[Centreville]].
 
Image:CDCDA Man Train.jpg|Locomotive [[DAR0470|No. 470]] delivers the mail at [[Centreville]].
 
Image:DAR0470d.jpg|[[Train No. 14]] arriving at Kentville led by [[DAR0470|No. 470]]. [[Kentville Roundhouse|engine terminal]] at left. [[Kentville Water Tower|water stand pipe]] in centre. August 1949.
 
Image:DAR0470d.jpg|[[Train No. 14]] arriving at Kentville led by [[DAR0470|No. 470]]. [[Kentville Roundhouse|engine terminal]] at left. [[Kentville Water Tower|water stand pipe]] in centre. August 1949.

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Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 470.

Wheel Arrangement: 4-6-0

Built by Montreal Locomotive Works January 1912.

  • Builder No. 50462
  • 19" x 24" cylinders
  • 63" drivers.
  • CPR Class: D4g

This locomotive was transferred to DAR in 1940 and officially listed as a D.A.R. locomotive in 1941 (1) and 1947 (2). No. 470 was the only D4g on the DAR and retained its CPR livery and number for its entire DAR career.(3) It was regularly assigned locomotive on the Kingsport branchline in the 1940s and 50s. No. 470 was scrapped in Kentville in July 1955.(4)

Gallery

Other Known Images

Photo of No. 470 at the station in Kingsport on the "History of Kingsport" web page: http://www.kingsport.ca/history/history.htm

Photo of locomotive on page 47, Locomotive Quarterly, Spring 1998, Vol XXI, Number 3, photo collection of Kenneth S. MacDonald.

References and Footnotes

External Links