Emigration Canyon Railroad
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EQUIPMENT ROSTER
(Note: Format changed from roster as published in Swett's "Interurbans of Utah".)
| Car | Type | Builder | Year | Length | Trucks | Roof | Disposal |
| No. 1 "Planet" | 1 | ECRR | 1907 | --- | Baldwin | Deck | Dismantled in 1913 |
| No. 2 | 1 | ECRR | 1907 | --- | Baldwin | Deck | Sold in 1917 |
| Red Butte | 2 | Danville | 1909 | 40'6" | Brill | Railroad | Sold in 1917 |
| Wanship | 2 | Danville | 1909 | 40'6" | Brill | Railroad | Sold in 1917 |
| Wasatch | 3 | Danville | 1909 | 43'5" | --- | Canvas | Sold in 1917 |
| Oquirrh | 3 | Danville | 1909 | 43'5" | --- | Canvas | Sold in 1917 |
| Uintah | 4 | American | 1910 | 37'0" | Brill | Arch | Sold in 1917 |
| Tintic | 4 | American | 1910 | 37'0" | Brill | Arch | Sold in 1917 |
| Pinecrest | 2 | Niles | 1913 | 47'0" | Baldwin | Arch | Sold in 1917 |
| Washakie | 2 | Niles | 1913 | 47'0" | Baldwin | Arch | Sold in 1917 |
| Pioneer | 5 | --- | --- | --- | --- | Deck | Dismantled in 1917 |
Type:
- 1 - Locomotive
- 2 - Closed Passenger Motor
- 3 - Open Passenger Trailer
- 4 - Closed Passenger Trailer
- 5 - Line Car
NOTES ON CARS:
Car No. 1 "Planet": Originally designated No. 1. It was scrapped in 1913, with trucks, motors and controls going into Washakie.
Car No. 2: An improved version of No. 1. Later received larger cab with room for a freight compartment. Was renumbered No. 1 in 1913. Sold to Tacoma in 1917.
Red Butte, Wanship: These two passenger motors had triple-arch windows, bodies of wood.
Wasatch, Oquirrh: Open, double-truck trailers with wood cross seats, a canvas roof supported by a pipe framework, end-entrance, and high platforms.
Uintah, Tintic: Closed trailers, center entrance. Very similar to Denver trailers. Had 48 seats, weighed but 9,000 pounds. Brill 57-D truck (4'6"), 33 inch wheels 7'4" wide, 10'11" high. Upper sashes were stationary, lower sashes dropped into wall pockets. The single wide center entrance (8'2" wide) was protected by curtains of duck. Had both hand and air brakes.
Pinecrest, Washakie: Closed passenger motors. Had a total weight of 58,000 pounds of which the car body accounted for 24,000 pounds. Baldwin 78-22-A trucks, Westinghouse AMM brakes, Westinghouse 93-A2 motors, HL control, 48 seats (rattan). The body featured steel sheathing, 5'6" vestibules, 9'0" width, with oak interior finish. Pinecrest was entirely new, but Washakie received trucks, motor a and controls from Planet.
Pioneer: Old Salt Lake single-truck closed streetcar, converted by ECRR into its line car. Scrapped in 1917.
ROLLING STOCK: The cars and locomotives of were obtained in four distinct lots. First, the original engines and attendant single-truck flat cars; next, the 1909 order of four passenger cars; 1910 saw two passenger trailers added to the roster; the final order came in 1913 when the two big passenger cars were obtained. We have little information on ECRR freight cars other than that fifty flats were on hand at time of dissolution, and the Journal lists four 20'9" gondolas purchased in 1908. How reliable the Journal is in respect to ECRR is problematical; in both 1909 and 1910 it lists ECRR as ordering Baldwin steeple-cab locomotives, neither of which ever appeared on the property.
Common to all cars: Van Dorn 3/4 couplers, four motors (except Pioneer and trailers), air brakes (except Pioneer), no train doors, , Pullman green with gold trim on exteriors (except No. 1 and 2 which were black).
John W. Dodge recalls that Washington Railway and Electric's 585-599 (later 905-913) were very similar to ECRR's "Red Butte" and "Wanship." Mr. Dodge recollects that after their arrival in Tacoma, the ECRR motors became Tacoma 1-4, while the trailers became 51-54; they were painted orange.
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