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* [[Gary W. Ness]] in [[Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway]] (Volume Two) in Windsor as W&A No. 10, circa 1891 on page 4. | * [[Gary W. Ness]] in [[Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway]] (Volume Two) in Windsor as W&A No. 10, circa 1891 on page 4. | ||
* [http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=85897&lang=en Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, STR03978a], with Flying Bluenose near Bear River in 1912. | * [http://www.images.technomuses.ca/searchpf.php?id=85897&lang=en Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, STR03978a], with Flying Bluenose near Bear River in 1912. | ||
| − | * [ | + | * [https://ingeniumcanada.org/archives/details/STR-18230 Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Image STR18230a]. |
==References and Footnotes== | ==References and Footnotes== | ||
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Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 12 "Kentville"
Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0
Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in June 1891.
- Builder No. 11974
- 17" x 24" cylinders
- 66" drivers.
Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia in 1891, it was originally No. 10 on the Windsor and Annapolis Railway. It was the first "foreign" locomotive to run over the former Western Counties Railway in October 1 1894 when it pulled a special train of dignitaries to Yarmouth commemorating the occasion of the DAR take-over on October 1, 1894.(1)
It was destroyed by a fire on July 8, 1915 when the Kentville Roundhouse burned destroying No. 12 and No. 22.[1]
Name Origin: Kentville, the headquarters of the Windsor and Annapolis and the DAR.
Gallery
Windsor & Annapolis No. 10, later DAR No. 12 & Train B at the Windsor Station, circa 1891.
Combine No. 24 (behind engine) and Combine No. 31 with Locomotive No. 12 in a detail of a Kingsport Wharf photo, c. 1911
Other Known Photographs:
- Gary W. Ness in Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume One) at end of Kingsport Wharf, circa 1911 on page 5.
- Gary W. Ness in Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume Two) in Windsor as W&A No. 10, circa 1891 on page 4.
- Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, STR03978a, with Flying Bluenose near Bear River in 1912.
- Stephens Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Image STR18230a.
References and Footnotes
- ↑ "KENTVILLE HIT BY ANOTHER FIRE The D.A.R. Roundhouse and Engine Sheds Burned and Two Locomotives Destroyed", Digby Courier, July 9, 1915, Carl Riff Notes
(1) Gary W. Ness in Canadian Pacific's Dominion Atlantic Railway (Volume Two), page 4
Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"
Charles McBride DAR Locomotive List
Omer Lavallée, Canadian Pacific Steam Locomotives, page 348
External Links
- Locomotive No. 12 on the Kingsport Wharf in the McQuinn Collection, Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, N-3977 at Kingsport, circa 1911 (an enlargement of the photo in Ness Vol. I, page 5 Also cataloged as Image STR03977a.
- No. 12 with a train in a town - Canada Science and Technology Museum, Image STR03976a.
