Western Railroad Discussion > Need help with these engines

All are UTC at the Evanston Roundhouse. I need model info.

Thanks in advance.

Chris

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The 1303 looks like something I saw at the Middletown & Hummelstown several years ago.

Ed

1301 is a GE 44 Tonner.  1302 is a GE 80 Tonner, and 1303 is a  65 Tonner.

Jay Reed's Comprehensive Guide to Industrial Locomotives, 3rd Ed. identifies Union Tank Car 1301 as a GE "45-ton DC" (dropcab).  The photo of a different 45-ton DC in his Critters, Dinkys, and Centercabs looks like a match, except that 1301 appears to have had an end platform grafted onto the "front" (as-built, a 45-ton DC's end handrails attached to the sides of the hood as they did on the common high-cab 44-tonners).   The dropcabs were built for military service, and UTC 1301 started life as USA 8568 in October 1944. 

The 65-ton 1303 is also ex-military, built as USA 7165 in February 1943, but its red-white-and-blue paint job dates from its first post-military gig as Salt Lake Garfield & Western DS-5:

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,2153961,2153967#2153967

The 80-ton 1302 was a civilian its whole life, going to work in July 1949 for the American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO) as their #1 at the Garfield, UT smelter.  It passed to Kennecott Copper when that firm bought the facility.  Like the others, it eventually went to work for the Lithcote Division of Union Tank Car.

Thank you all very much.

Chris in Helper, Utah this morning.

Stumbled on those the other year, It was fun to watch them shuttling cars around the facility, Union Tank shop is a busy place.

Nathan

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