I am trying to focus on engines that were run in the late steam era near my residence in Ogden, UT. It's well known that the UP Ran Northerns, Challengers and Big Boys here locally, but I have found little info about what the SP ran into the area. Did Cab Forwards come east, or were they reserved for use in the California Sierra NV region? Did SP run oil or coal burners out this way?
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I M tying to focus on engines that were run in the late steam era near my residence in Ogden, UT. It's well known that the UP Ran Northerns, Challengers and Big Boys here locally, but I have found little info about what the SP ran into the area. Did Cab Forwards come east,
Very definitely YES! Lots of them too. Plus MT class Mountains, GS class Northerns, and various smaller locomotives such as 2-8-2s, and 2-8-0s.
or were they reserved for use in the California Sierra NV region? Did SP run oil or coal burners out this way?
All oil burning locomotives. The only coal burning locomotives on the entire SP system were out in the Lordsburg, NM territory, since there were coal mines there. The big AC-9 Yellowstones (2800 class) were all originally coal burning, until they were converted to oil burning in the early 1950s, and transferred to the MODOC Line.
Thanks for the info. I will be talking to the Archivist at the Union Station museum and see what he can find as well
Funny thing is that even though Ogden was both a UP and SP town, the UP gets the lions share of the history and attention. Even when I moved here in the early 80's the SP only had one little office in the Union Station. There were a couple of shops in the North end of the Ogden yard but those were quietly tore down after the merger
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