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*Cylinders: 12" x 24" | *Cylinders: 12" x 24" | ||
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Began as Atlanta Railroad, named "Westpointe" and "LaGrange" | Began as Atlanta Railroad, named "Westpointe" and "LaGrange" | ||
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| + | Name Origin: Queen Mab is queen of the fairies in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", a play which supplied the name of several W & A locomotives inherited by the DAR. | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
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Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster" | Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster" | ||
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J.B. King, "Windsor & Annapolis Railway Motive Power Presents Throny Problems", ''Halifax Chronicle Herald'', Sat. May 24, 1958, p. 20 | J.B. King, "Windsor & Annapolis Railway Motive Power Presents Throny Problems", ''Halifax Chronicle Herald'', Sat. May 24, 1958, p. 20 | ||
Revision as of 21:27, 4 November 2008
Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 1 "Queen Mab"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0
Built by Rogers in 1860
- Builder No.: 1691
- Cylinders: 12" x 24"
- Drivers: 56"
Began as Atlanta Railroad, named "Westpointe" and "LaGrange"
Sold to Fredericton Branch Railway, named "L.A. Wilmot"
Sold to the Cornwallis Valley Railway as No. 1 in 1888
Became Windsor & Annapolis Railway No. 13 in 1890
Became DAR No. 1 in 1893
Name Origin: Queen Mab is queen of the fairies in William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", a play which supplied the name of several W & A locomotives inherited by the DAR.
Gallery
References and Footnotes
Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List
J.B. King, "Windsor & Annapolis Railway Motive Power Presents Throny Problems", Halifax Chronicle Herald, Sat. May 24, 1958, p. 20
Known Photographs:
- McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-3966
