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| − | * | + | * Canada Science and Technology Museum, builders photo 1896, Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR03991, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/STR03991/<ref>Permalink: https://files.ingeniumcanada.org/items/arch/220/STR-03991_eee3887464c79fbbfa0d503bfb5aa35cb4a09879.jpeg</ref> |
| − | * | + | * Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR09884, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/STR09884/ <ref>Permalink: https://files.ingeniumcanada.org/items/arch/226/STR-09884_5e3635cf43c5af57fec4f4764fe2733044b50cfe.jpeg</ref> |
| + | * Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR03990, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/STR03990/<ref>Permalink: https://files.ingeniumcanada.org/items/arch/220/STR-03990_0202c1fd7dfe13bcc0adc577bdf50555227c7882.jpeg</ref> | ||
* Merrilees Collection, Library and Archives Canada, Glass Negatives, B-009398 | * Merrilees Collection, Library and Archives Canada, Glass Negatives, B-009398 | ||
* [[M. Allen Gibson]], ''[[Train Time]]'', Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 34 (being scrapped Kentville Sept, 1937?) | * [[M. Allen Gibson]], ''[[Train Time]]'', Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 34 (being scrapped Kentville Sept, 1937?) | ||
Revision as of 20:11, 17 October 2024
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 23 "Regina", "Cornwallis"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0
Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in July 1896.
- Builder No. 14966
- 18" x 24" cylinders[1] 17.5" x 18" cylinders[2] May have had compound cylinders when built.
- 66" drivers.
Ordered as Windsor and Annapolis Railway locomotive No. 18, it was delivered well after the 1894 merger lettered from the beginning as DAR No. 23 "Regina", later renamed "Cornwallis". No. 23 often worked the CVR line to Kingsport pulling the morning school trains. It was the last surviving locomotive from the Windsor and Annapolis era and one of the last 4-4-0s on the DAR.
No. 23 made its last run in July 1938 and was scrapped in Kentville in August and September, 1938.[3]
Name Origin: Regina - Latin for Queen. Cornwallis - Edward Cornwallis, founder of Halifax.
Gallery
No. 23 "Regina", builders photo 1896.
DAR engine No. 23 "Regina" at the Windsor Station platform with passenger train and an early DAR Van on next track, circa 1905.
No. 23 "Regina".
No. 23 "Cornwallis" being scrapped at Kentville August 1937.
Other Known Photographs:
- Canada Science and Technology Museum, builders photo 1896, Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR03991, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/STR03991/[4]
- Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR09884, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/STR09884/ [5]
- Ingenium Archives, Science and Technology Railway Collection, STR03990, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/STR03990/[6]
- Merrilees Collection, Library and Archives Canada, Glass Negatives, B-009398
- M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, Windsor: Lancelot Press (1973) page 34 (being scrapped Kentville Sept, 1937?)
References and Footnotes
- ↑ Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
- ↑ Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348, 352
- ↑ M. Allen Gibson, Train Time, page 34 & 39 and Charles McBride's DAR Photo Album No. 1, page 16, both say No. 23 waa scrapped in September 1937. However, closer to the event, The Kentville Advertiser reported her last run and scraping in August 1938 George Bishop "Railway Notes", Kentville Advertiser, August 4, 1938.
- ↑ Permalink: https://files.ingeniumcanada.org/items/arch/220/STR-03991_eee3887464c79fbbfa0d503bfb5aa35cb4a09879.jpeg
- ↑ Permalink: https://files.ingeniumcanada.org/items/arch/226/STR-09884_5e3635cf43c5af57fec4f4764fe2733044b50cfe.jpeg
- ↑ Permalink: https://files.ingeniumcanada.org/items/arch/220/STR-03990_0202c1fd7dfe13bcc0adc577bdf50555227c7882.jpeg
