The Dominion Atlantic Railway Employees

This section is all about the people who defined, built, worked, lived and breathed life into the railway.

Gallery

Construction crew for Joggins Railway Bridge, 1909
Hugh Potter (L) and Harry Ruggles, DAR section men, with handcar at Upper Clements, 1910-1915 approx.
No. 33 at Wolfville Station circa 1901 to 1911.
Engineer Harry Ward, Newsagent Harry MacKinley and the crew of a passenger train, probably the "Flying Bluenose" at the Yarmouth Station, circa 1910.
Train crew of the Flying Bluenose, 1916.
Kentville Freight Shed with C. F. “Fritz” Walter, DAR constable & caretaker, train crew and station staff, circa 1920s.
No. 544 on the roundhouse turntable with Kentville Roundhouse staff. The water tower stands at its first location by the turntable, circa 1930.
Yard locomotive No. 61661 in Kentville with fireman Painter Bunton Barnaby, shop foreman Fred Landry and engineer William Toomey, circa 1930.
DAR Employees posing with Engine 385 in 1932
Seniority List of Engineers & Firemen 1-15 - 30th June 1934.
Seniority List of Engineers & Firemen 11-36 - 30th June 1934.
Seniority List of Engineers & Firemen 30-39 - 30th June 1934.
Engineer Arthur Palmeter with engine 45, circa 1935.
DAR office staff at the Kentville Station, 1935.
Kingsport Station agent and crew of the Kingsport train at the Kingsport Station, summer 1946.
The Car Shop crew from 1949.
Retirement day for DAR employees at the Kentville Station showing left to right Harry William, conductor; Ray Christie, master mechanic; Cecil Guild, train man; William Cox, machinist, June 1 1956.
DAR office employees photographed by at the Kentville Station, September 25, 1964.
A long-time Nova Scotia railway officer, James Brignell.