F&CC/Uintah/EN #12

Uintah #12 has an interesting history .It started out as F&CC #10 ,built for that road in 1896.It was sold to the Uintah in 1917 .An extra-order boiler was ordered from Baldwin in 1924 ,replacing the orginal boiler .It was the only one of the three surviving F&CC 2-8-0s to get a new boiler . It ,along with 2-8-2 #40 held down the run between Mack and Atchee .This engine may have seen little use after the delivery of the articulateds in the late 1920s , and perhaps no use after 1934 .It was shopped in 1937 and sent out on test runs to Mack in 1937,which was photographed by Otto Perry ,being one of the few photos of this locomotive running . It was sold to the Eureka Nevada Railroad that year and ran a bit on the last year of that road's existence .Somehow the locomotive ,perhaps because it was in very good shape ,escaped scrapping .It sat in Palisade till the late 1940s when a well known Las Vegas character "liberated" the abandoned locomotive , moving it to a Las Vegas casino. It belongs to the state of Nevada and is stored in Boulder City .Despite its rough appearance ,it is restorablre due to the relatively new boiler with less than a decade of use on it . According to Dan Markoff ,it is slated for eventual repair by the state .