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4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler number 999 - Date? Pierre Lacombe.
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Dominion Atlantic Railway Locomotive 999
22 December 2020

Delson Quebec - Re: Steam Engine Finds New Home at Middleton Museum - 20 Dec 2020.
 
The editor's comment in the above article indicated there were no DAR locomotives saved from scrapping.
 
Canadian Pacific Railway 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler class D10h number 999 is an ex-Dominion Atlantic Railway locomotive.
 
While it operated on the DAR it had the name "Fronsac".
 
This locomotive is preserved at Exporail, the Canadian Railway Museum, at Delson.
 
Stephen Cheasley.

 Image   The DAR Wiki provided the following data: Dominion Atlantic Railway Steam Locomotive No. 537 "Fronsac" "Evangeline" Wheel Arrangement 4-6-0. Built by North British Locomotive Company at Glasgow. Scotland in December 1903. Builder No. 16051. 21 inch x 26 inch cylinders. 63 inch drivers. 53 foot wheelbase length, engine and tender. CPR Class D6b. This locomotive started on the DAR as the Second No. 40. See DAR No.40 (2nd) for details of its earlier career. In May 1937, it was renumbered from DAR No. 40 to DAR No. 537 as the DAR shifted to CPR style numbers. It was renamed "Fronsac", complete with a cast brass plaque with the name, and had the honour of carrying the "President's Special", a special train of CPR officials on a tour of the DAR on 18 Jul1937. No. 537 seems to have given up the name "Fronsac" to DAR No. 999 in 1938 and reverted to its old name "Evangeline". No. 537 went into the scrap line at Kentville in November 1939 and was scrapped in December 1939. Name Origin: Nicholas Denys, Sieur de Fronsac, merchant and colonial developer of Acadia in 1632, later used by No. 999.
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