The Jull used in the Alpine trials was purchased by the UP and was inherited by the C&S.
Jull 2 Rogers 2/1890 Union Pacific Builder #4256 066; stnd gge cnverted narrow gauge snow plow trials on Denver Leadville & Gunnison stnd gge by mid 1890
to UP Denver & Gulf 25 1893; Colorado & Southern 02 06/06/1899; 0200 07/15/1903;
C&S 99210 6/1912; scrpd 4/12/1929; Last Stationed Trinidad, CO
The Jull had the deck stacked against it for Alpine trial. It was a SG machine and very heavy for the narrow gauge track. Southwark built the first Jull and Rogers built the remaining 10 machines. They seemed to be reasonably successful out on the plains. There are some great pictures of the SOO Jull blowing snow to both sides. There is also a great pic of the CB&Q 205026 being used in the mountains above Deadwood in the Black Hills.. The UP bought the first 2 and the longest user was the CB&Q being used through the blizzards of 1949. The Santa Fe Jull #99803 was the 7th Jull plow and was scrapped in 1935. Great pictures of this plow in Leadville book Silver Rails by Chris James
The Q's management decided not to rebuild them in 1949. They decided to rebuild the Leslie type rotaries including the major rebuild of the C&S plow, an even more ambitious rebuild of their Alliance plow #205027 (Rogers Oct 1913) into #205098 and the complete rebuild of their Lincoln plow #205028 (Cooke Oct. 1915) to #205099. This was the first rotary rebuilt to electric power provided by a locomotive. It was renumbered by the BN to 972558 and was heavily damaged being used in South Dakota March 2001. It was reported as scrapped but drug out and rebuilt by RELCO in 2010. The plow still survives in BNSF Orange and green in Lincoln, NE.
