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Re: Steam Trivia Question

Author: Tom Moungovan

Date: 01-22-2010 - 21:23

1stcajon Wrote:
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> The Uintah also had two 2-6-2Ts #50 & #51 that
> also negotiated the same 7.5 per cent % grades &
> the 65 degree curves (87' radius!). Here's a web
> site w/ more info & pix:
> [home.bresnan.net]

Actually, they were custom-built 2-6-6-2T simple articulateds built by Baldwin that
were originally rated for 140 tons over Baxter Pass, then derated to only 90 tons, about
double that of the 50 ton 2T Shays. A lot of locomotive for what they could do, proof that
the Uintah's profile could humble most anything that was thrown at it. You were correct as
their numbers were 50 and 51. They later went to the Sumpter Valley in Eastern Oregon and
then to the IRCA (Guatemala) in 1947. When I first visited there in late '71, both were
unused hulks sitting in the weeds in the Escuintla yard and were later cut up.

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Steam Trivia Question	Tom Moungovan	01-22-2010 - 08:53
Re: Steam Trivia Question	George Andrews	01-22-2010 - 09:35
Re: Steam Trivia Question	sp4294	01-22-2010 - 10:33
Re: Steam Trivia Question	Tom Moungovan	01-22-2010 - 12:43
Re: Steam Trivia Question	1stcajon	01-22-2010 - 21:07
Re: Steam Trivia Question	Tom Moungovan	01-22-2010 - 21:23

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Tom Moungovan Wrote:
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> 1stcajon Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > The Uintah also had two 2-6-2Ts #50 & #51 that
> > also negotiated the same 7.5 per cent % grades
> &
> > the 65 degree curves (87' radius!). Here's a
> web
> > site w/ more info & pix:
> > http://home.bresnan.net/~bpratt15/index.htm
> 
>   Actually, they were custom-built 2-6-6-2T simple
> articulateds built by Baldwin that
>   were originally rated for 140 tons over Baxter
> Pass, then derated to only 90 tons, about
>   double that of the 50 ton 2T Shays.  A lot of
> locomotive for what they could do, proof that
>   the Uintah's profile could humble most anything
> that was thrown at it.  You were correct as 
>   their numbers were 50 and 51.  They later went
> to the Sumpter Valley in Eastern Oregon and
>   then to the IRCA (Guatemala) in 1947.  When I
> first visited there in late '71, both were
>   unused hulks sitting in the weeds in the
> Escuintla yard and were later cut up.

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