weston1879 Wrote:
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> The management change from John Evans to Jay
> Gould/UP might have played a small part in it.
I was beginning to wonder if anybody else was going to point that out. Seems obvious to me!
Gould buys DSP&P: 11/9/1880
Gould transfers DSP&P to UP: 1/25/81
DSP&P becomes south Park Division of UP: early January, 1881
Last Mason (#28) delivered: 10/1880
Next new engine (#29, cold-water Brooks): delivered: 5/1882
So in the Fall of '81, with the Gunnison line about to be (finally!) completed in the Spring, the UP needed more engines for the South Park
and placed an order for what UP though was a good 3' gauge engine, just like the ones they'd bought for CC previously. Doubtless by then all the old DSP&P hands in management had been shown the door and replaced by UP men or had their whole job moved to Omaha. Nobody would have been left who would have dared to say "Just a minute, we've always had good results with our Masons, let's buy more of them instead."
hank