DAR0003

Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 3 "Gaspereaux"

Wheel Arrangement: 4-4-0

Built by Kingston Locomotive Works in 1866.

• Builder No. 75
• 12" x 24" cylinders
• 62" drivers.

Began as Nova Scotia Railway No. 23.

Later Intercolonial Railway No. 23.

Rebuilt by Portland Works with 12 x 24" cylinders in 1875 and traded to the Windsor & Annapolis Railway where it became W&A No. 6, part of a swap of nine standard gauge ICR locomotives for nine broad gauge W&A locomotives in a government plan to standardize gauges.

Became DAR No. 3 in 1893

Name Origin: River crossed by the DAR at Horton where Acadians boarded deportation ships. Also the name of a popular fish for New England anglers.

References and Footnotes

Jim O'Donnell "Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive Roster"

Charles McBride "Dominion Atlantic Railway I" Locomotive List

J.B. King, "Windsor & Annapolis Railway Motive Power Presents Thorny Problems", Halifax Chronicle Herald, Sat. May 24, 1958, p. 20

No Known Photographs