the railway in 1900. Children's author Zillah K. Macdonald wrote two books The Bluenose Express (1928) and Mic Mac on the Track (1930), personalizing the railway's locomotives and their adventures in a style that predated the famous Thomas the Tank Engine characters created by British railway enthusiast Rev. Wilbert Awdry in 1942. In the rural Canadian classic, The Mountain and the Valley (1952) by Ernest Buckler, the railway is used as an important symbol of change and the outside world. The Dominion Atlantic features prominently in the book Blomidon Rose (1957), a nostalgic look at the life and landscape of 1930s Annapolis Valley by Esther Clark Wright. The Dominion Atlantic inspired poetry by noted Nova Scotian writer George Elliot Clarke, a wistful, erotic poem of youth entitled "Dominion Atlantic Railway" in his 1983 book Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues. The noted Canadian painter Alex Colville drew inspiration from several DAR trackside scenes for several major works including his painting "French Cross" and "Dog and Bridge". See also List of defunct Canadian railways References Further reading Ness, Gary. Dominion Atlantic Railway: 1894–1994'' (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2014) Pp. 192, External links Library and Archives Canada: Dominion Atlantic Railway Railways of Canada Archives: Dominion Atlantic Railway (DAR) D.A.R. and the 20th Century Dominion Atlantic Railway Digital Preservation Initiative Wiki Project Nova Scotia Railway Heritage Society DAR Stations: List and Photos History of Railway Companies in Nova Scotia Dominion Atlantic Railway Passenger Train Schedules 1936 to 1949 Kentville Roundhouse Memory Lane Railway Museum Toronto Railway Museum Canadian Pacific Railway subsidiaries Defunct Nova Scotia railways Transport in Colchester County Transport in Halifax, Nova Scotia Transport in Hants County, Nova Scotia Transport in Kings County, Nova Scotia Transport in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia Transport in Digby County, Nova Scotia Transport in Yarmouth County Standard gauge railways in Canada