Brian Norden Wrote:
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> Hank,
>
> The number 101 comes from the 1885 renumbering of
> the UP system including subsidiary lines.
>
> Information about UP 101 can be found on
> UtahRails,net
> Here is the link to the webpage:
> [url=http://utahrails.net/up-steam-roster/up03-ups
> ys1885-1898-00.php]Union Pacific System, 1885-1898
> Narrow Gauge, Numbers 1 to 299[/url]
> The section about this locomotive can be found
> about 2/5 the way down the page.
>
> [quote=Utah Rails]U&N 101 was ordered, built and
> delivered as Kansas Central Railway 12 in 1882,
> diverted upon receipt by parent Union Pacific to
> Utah & Northern 44; to U&N 101 in 1885;
> transferred in May 1886 to Denver, South Park &
> Pacific 101, to replace DSP&P Mason "Bogie" 50,
> destroyed in wreck on U&N on May 12, 1886; to DL&G
> 101 in 1889; dropped from equipment on December
> 31, 1891, presumed scrapped.[/quote]
>
Now all of that I knew, except the date dropped. I think all the South Park rosters I've read list it as "gone by 1894" or something like that.
Hank