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File:McBride2p51C.jpg|Eastbound mixed train on the [[Bear River Bridge]] with [[:Category:Refrigerator Cars|refrigerator cars]], circa winter 1937. | File:McBride2p51C.jpg|Eastbound mixed train on the [[Bear River Bridge]] with [[:Category:Refrigerator Cars|refrigerator cars]], circa winter 1937. | ||
Revision as of 19:59, 8 August 2024
A "Consist" is the make up of a specific train: the type, number and arrangement of cars and locomotives in that train. This page shows images of DAR consists where the entire train is visible to document the type and arrangement of cars used in various DAR trains over time.
Passenger Consists
No. 18 with The Flying Bluenose near Kentville with Baggage Car 46 and Coach No. 27 in 1896.
Locomotive No. 24 with an westbound passenger train crossing the Gaspereaux River Bridge in Horton Landing, Aug 24, 1902.
Kentville Station with parlour car Haligonian or Mayflower; Freight Shed and Car Shop, after 1904 addition.
Colourized postcard of the Flying Bluenose, Train No. 124 crossing the Bear River Bridge, circa 1906.
Locomotive No. 25 with a nine-car excursion special at South Maitland, June 21, 1907.
DAR Engine No. 18 with a passenger train on the Annapolis Royal Bridge with the Annapolis Royal "Frogmore" station on far right, 1909.
Combine No. 24 (behind engine) and No. 31 with Locomotive No. 12 in a detail of a Kingsport Wharf photo, c. 1911.
The westbound Flying Bluenose inside the North Street Station at Halifax, circa 1912.
The eastbound Flying Bluenose at Elderkin Creek berween Kentville and New Minas.
DAR locomotive No. 32 with Train No. 98 at the Kentville Station with the Kentville Freight Shed, December 1915.
No 503 leading the Flying Bluenose, Train No. 123 at the Kentville Station with a CPR refrigerator car in background, circa 1920s.
No. 25, Strathcona with a westbound express at the Annapolis Royal Station. Note the freight shed, bulk fuel facility, and old Engine House behind the station.
A passenger train at the Annapolis Royal Station with the freight shed and Imperial Oil Bulk Plant and the old W&AR Annapolis Royal Enginehouse in background, circa 1920.
No. 502 leading the New Yorker, Train No. 25, on its first day of operation at the Kentville Station, June 22, 1928.
Kingsport Wharf with a DAR locomotive, boxcar and passenger cars, with the DAR ferry MV Kipawo arriving, circa 1930s.
A DAR extra with a ski excursion at Ellershouse with locomotive No. 500, February 23, 1936.
Kingsport Wharf with MV Kipawo meeting a 4-4-0 locomotive pulling a passenger coach, Combine No. 31 and two boxcars, August 1936.
"President's Special" crossing the Bear River Bridge with locomotive No. 537 and business cars "St. Andrew"; "Wentworth" and "Thorold", July 18, 1937.
Train No. 95 pulled by Locomotive No. 2552 crossing the Bear River Bridge with the ruins of the Clarke Brothers Pulp Mill to left, circa 1950.
Train No. 98 with Engine No. 2617 over the bridge at The Joggins on July 3, 1954.
Train No. 98 led by No. 2617 on the Bear River Bridge on July 3, 1954.
Kentville Station, with locomotive No. 2551 hauling passenger train with RDC in consist, 1956-1958.
Mixed Train for Kingsport leaving yard. Visible is business car Nova Scotia beside the repair shop and the coaling tower in Kentville on August 28, 1956.
DAR mixed Train No. 100 led by No. 2516 with box car No. 225114 nearing Hebron in August 1957.
Locomotive No. 8133 hauling Train No. 11, passing ruins of Falmouth Station and the Falmouth Fruit Company Warehouse, July 1959.
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Freight Consists
Eastbound mixed train on the Bear River Bridge with refrigerator cars, circa winter 1937.
A gypsum train near Hantsport, pre-1959.
DAR locomotive No. 1038 and caboose No. 435073 with the Kentville to Windsor freight train No. 94 arriving at Windsor, July 1956.
S-3's No. 6560 & 6561 pulling plaster train near Windsor on August 28, 1956.
DAR No. 1046 stops at Grand Pre Station on October 8, 1956.
DAR No. 1046 with short five car freight traverses the marshes just east of Grand Pre station, on Monday Oct 8, 1956.
Plaster train crossing Avon River Bridge en route to quarries on July 20, 1967.
No. 1275 leads another locomotive and a gypsum train. Date and location unknown.
No. 8132 with westbound freight and CN RDCs at Fairview Cove in July 1973.
Gypsum train westbound climbing out of Avon River Valley at Falmouth on August 17, 1977.
Westbound freight passing CN Bedford station, June 23, 1979.
No. 434061 is the caboose on a train of freight and work equipment at Bloomfield in July 1988.
No. 1272 makes its way East across the Bear River Bridge in the winter of 1988.
No. 1271 is eastbound at Bloomfield in August 1989.
No. 1271 is westbound at Bloomfield in October 1989.
