Post by hypoponera on Mar 9, 2023 21:46:51 GMT -5
I just went to ebay looking for said gon. Here is what 1 seller had posted:
"Just after being organized in early 1912, Utah Railway had purchased fifteen fifty-ton flat cars from Standard Steel Car Company, along with twenty-five fifty-ton gondola cars from Ralston Steel Car Company. The new flat cars and gondola cars were delivered in April and May 1913. Also in 1912 the company purchased three cabooses from Mount Vernon Car Manufacturing Company. These were delivered in June 1913 and leased to the Southern Utah for operation. That first order for 500 cars first announced in March 1913 wasn't actually placed until May 1914 and the cars began arriving in September 1914. They were the first of 2,000 cars owned jointly after 1917 with the SPLA&SL (later LA&SL) and were operated as the fictitious Utah Coal Route equipment. The Utah Coal Route name was in reality used only on these 2,000 cars and was simply a marketing scheme for coal mined in Utah and shipped to destinations on the Union Pacific.
The Utah Coal Route name was in reality a fiction and used only on some 2000 cars and was a marketing scheme for coals mines in Utah and the cars were shipped to destinations on the Union Pacific. (Utah Railway: Manual, equipment lists) When the first 100 of 500 cars ordered by Utah Railway had been received. The rest were still between Price and Pittsburgh Pa. When the news was Telegraphed that the Utah Railway had turned over it's operations to the D&RG Railroad "some thirty days ago". So While the Union Pacific owned the Railroad spur that went up to the coalfields in Utah they didn't have gondolas to transport the coal. The D&RG seeing an opportunity paid for the Gondolas and took "ownership" of the fictitious "Utah Coal Route Railway" and contracted with the Union Pacific to run the gondolas to and from the coal mines in Utah. So while D&RG owned the gondolas the only Locomotives allowed to pull them on the spur was the Union Pacific. Yes sometimes history is complicated The Union Pacific railroad was going in severe financial distress during this time and only avoided oblivion when E.H. Harriman took control and revived the railroad."
Anyone know how accurate that story might be? I still don't know who "SPLA&SL (later LA&SL)" is/was.
"Just after being organized in early 1912, Utah Railway had purchased fifteen fifty-ton flat cars from Standard Steel Car Company, along with twenty-five fifty-ton gondola cars from Ralston Steel Car Company. The new flat cars and gondola cars were delivered in April and May 1913. Also in 1912 the company purchased three cabooses from Mount Vernon Car Manufacturing Company. These were delivered in June 1913 and leased to the Southern Utah for operation. That first order for 500 cars first announced in March 1913 wasn't actually placed until May 1914 and the cars began arriving in September 1914. They were the first of 2,000 cars owned jointly after 1917 with the SPLA&SL (later LA&SL) and were operated as the fictitious Utah Coal Route equipment. The Utah Coal Route name was in reality used only on these 2,000 cars and was simply a marketing scheme for coal mined in Utah and shipped to destinations on the Union Pacific.
The Utah Coal Route name was in reality a fiction and used only on some 2000 cars and was a marketing scheme for coals mines in Utah and the cars were shipped to destinations on the Union Pacific. (Utah Railway: Manual, equipment lists) When the first 100 of 500 cars ordered by Utah Railway had been received. The rest were still between Price and Pittsburgh Pa. When the news was Telegraphed that the Utah Railway had turned over it's operations to the D&RG Railroad "some thirty days ago". So While the Union Pacific owned the Railroad spur that went up to the coalfields in Utah they didn't have gondolas to transport the coal. The D&RG seeing an opportunity paid for the Gondolas and took "ownership" of the fictitious "Utah Coal Route Railway" and contracted with the Union Pacific to run the gondolas to and from the coal mines in Utah. So while D&RG owned the gondolas the only Locomotives allowed to pull them on the spur was the Union Pacific. Yes sometimes history is complicated The Union Pacific railroad was going in severe financial distress during this time and only avoided oblivion when E.H. Harriman took control and revived the railroad."
Anyone know how accurate that story might be? I still don't know who "SPLA&SL (later LA&SL)" is/was.
