Emigration Canyon Railroad Equipment Roster
This page was last updated on June 18, 2016.
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(Based on the roster published in Swett's "Interurbans of Utah".)
Car | Type | Builder | Year | Length | Trucks | Roof | Disposition | Notes |
No. 1 "Planet" | Locomotive | ECRR | 1907 | --- | Baldwin | Deck | Dismantled in 1913 | 1 |
No. 2 "Uintah" | Locomotive | Baldwin | Nov 1909 | --- | Baldwin | Deck | Sold in 1917 | 2 |
Red Butte | Closed Passenger Motor | Danville | 1909 | 40'6" | Brill | Railroad | Sold in 1917 | 3 |
Wanship | Closed Passenger Motor | Danville | 1909 | 40'6" | Brill | Railroad | Sold in 1917 | 3 |
Wasatch | Open Passenger Trailer | Danville | 1909 | 43'5" | --- | Canvas | Sold in 1917 | 4 |
Oquirrh | Open Passenger Trailer | Danville | 1909 | 43'5" | --- | Canvas | Sold in 1917 | 4 |
Uintah | Closed Passenger Trailer | American | 1910 | 37'0" | Brill | Arch | Sold in 1917 | 5 |
Tintic | Closed Passenger Trailer | American | 1910 | 37'0" | Brill | Arch | Sold in 1917 | 5 |
Pinecrest | Closed Passenger Motor | Niles | 1913 | 47'0" | Baldwin | Arch | Sold in 1917 | 6 |
Washakie | Closed Passenger Motor | Niles | 1913 | 47'0" | Baldwin | Arch | Sold in 1917 | 6 |
Pioneer | Line Car | --- | --- | --- | --- | Deck | Dismantled in 1917 | 7 |
Notes on Cars:
- Car No. 1 "Planet" was originally designated No. 1. It was scrapped in 1913, with trucks, motors and controls going into Washakie.
- Car No. 2 was built by Baldwin as an improved version of No. 1; Baldwin serial no. 34049; 300 hp; 38-inch wheels. Later received larger cab with room for a freight compartment. Renumbered as No. 1 (2nd) in 1913. Sold to Tacoma Municipal Belt Line in 1917; damaged by fire in about 1918 and retired.
- Motors "Red Butte" and "Wanship" were passenger motors with triple-arch windows and wooden bodies.
- Trailers "Wasatch" and "Oquirrh" were open, double-truck trailers with wood cross seats, a canvas roof supported by a pipe framework, end-entrance, and high platforms.
- Trailers "Uintah" and "Tintic" were closed trailers, center entrance. Very similar to Denver trailers. Had 48 seats, weighed but 9,000 pounds. Brill 57-D truck (4'6"), 33 inch wheels 7'4" wide, 10'11" high. Upper sashes were stationary, lower sashes dropped into wall pockets. The single wide center entrance (8'2" wide) was protected by curtains of duck. Had both hand and air brakes.
- Motors "Pinecrest" and "Washakie" were closed passenger motors, with a total weight of 58,000 pounds. Equipped with Baldwin 78-22-A trucks, Westinghouse AMM brakes, Westinghouse 93-A2 motors, HL control, and 48 seats (rattan). The body featured steel sheathing, 5'6" vestibules, 9'0" width, with oak interior finish. "Pinecrest" was entirely new, but "Washakie" received trucks, motors and controls from "Planet."
- Line Car "Pioneer" was an old Salt Lake City single-truck closed streetcar, converted by ECRR into its line car. Scrapped in 1917.
Rolling Stock
The cars and locomotives of were obtained in four distinct lots.
- First, the original engines and attendant single-truck flat cars
- Next, the 1909 order of four passenger cars
- 1910 saw two passenger trailers added to the roster
- The final order came in 1913 when the two big passenger cars were obtained.
Little information exists for Emigration Canyon freight cars other than that 50 flat cars were on hand at the time the railroad was shut down in 1917. The Electric Railway Journal lists four 20' 9" gondolas purchased in 1908. How reliable the Journal is in respect to ECRR is a problem; in both 1909 and 1910 it lists ECRR as ordering Baldwin steeple-cab locomotives, neither of which ever appeared on the property.
Common to all cars: Van Dorn 3/4 couplers, four motors (except Pioneer and trailers), air brakes (except Pioneer), no train doors, , Pullman green with gold trim on exteriors (except No. 1 and 2 which were black).
John W. Dodge recalls that Washington Railway & Electric's 585-599 (later 905-913) were very similar to ECRR's "Red Butte" and "Wanship." Mr. Dodge recollects that after their arrival in Tacoma, the ECRR motors became Tacoma 1-4, while the trailers became 51-54; they were painted orange.
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