Utah Industrial Rails
Locomotive Rosters
This page was last updated on September 25, 2008.
(Companies listed alphabetically.)
Other UtahRails industrial sites with their own separate web pages:
U. S. Steel Geneva Works
U. S. Steel Columbia Ironton Works
U. S. Steel Wellington Coal Wash plant
Cargill Flour
Ogden, Utah
| Road Number |
Builder Model |
Builder Number |
Builder Date |
| 6971 | EMD SW1 | 1111 | Sep 1940 |
General Notes:
| a. | From Western Railway Supply; purchased from location in Fontana, Calif., lettered as Cargill 6971, moved to Ogden in mid August 1993 (Locomotive Notes II, Number 175, December 1993, page 13, reported by Bill Farmer and Don Bain) |
| b. | Cargill 6971 was built as B&O 213, to B&O 8413; to Arco Petroleum, Carson, California, number 8413, renumbered to Arco Petroleum number 6971; to GATX 6971; to Cargill 6971. (information from Norm Metcalf and Don Bain via email on February 21, 2007) |
| c. | Builder data from Randy Keller. |
Chicago Bridge & Iron Co.
Salt Lake City, Utah
| Road Number |
Builder Model |
Builder Number |
Builder Date |
Date Retired |
Notes |
| 180 | Vulcan 20 ton | 4353 | Feb 1942 | 1 |
General Notes:
| a. | Built as Quartermaster Corps 2082, assigned to March Field, Calif., renumbered to U. S. Army Transportation Corps 7713; sold to Mississippi Valley Equipment Co. (dealer), located in St. Louis, Mo.; sold in 1949 to Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. in Salt Lake City, numbered as CB&I 180; still in Utah by June 1982; by May 1995, this unit was sitting in an open field near Salem, N. J., near a paving company. (Locomotive Notes II, Number 187, October 1995, page 14) |
| b. | Originally equipped with a six-cylinder, 175 horsepower LeRoi engine; re-engined by CB&I in 1951 with a Cummins six-cylinder, 200 horsepower engine. |
| c. | Information from the cast plate mounted on the locomotive: Corps of Engineers U. S. Army 20 Ton Locomotive Gasoline-Mechanical C. of E. Spec. T-1343 C. of E. No. GM-2082 P.O. 53554 Manufactured by Vulcan iron Works No. 4353 Feb. 1942 |
Circle 4 Farms
Milford, Utah
| Road Number |
Builder Model |
Previous Number |
Frame Number |
Rebuild Date |
Date To Circle Four |
Notes |
| DLSX 1200 | EMD/UP SW10 | UP 1200 | 4216-2 | Aug 1979 | April 2000 |
General Notes:
| a. | Circle 4 Farms 1200 was built as UP SW9 1848, rebuilt by UP to SW10 1848 in August 1979, renumbered to UP 1200 in March 1980; retired by UP in December 1997; sold in April 1999 to Boise Locomotive; sold in July 1999 to Diesel Supply, Hudson, Wis.; moved on 13 July 1999 to Columbia Basin Railroad at Yakima, Wash., for repairs and repainting; moved from Yakima to Delta, Utah, as DLSX 1200 during early April 2000; leased to Circle 4 Farms, Milford, Utah, where it replaced a wrecked TrackMobile; lettered as "Hog Express". |
| b. | Circle 4 Farms 1200 is used on a spur in Milford to switch rail cars of hog feed, which is then moved by truck to the large hog growing facilities about 10 miles south of Milford; seen in service at Milford in October 2006. (information from Norm Metcalf via email on February 19, 2007) |
David J. Joseph Co.
Western Metals Recycling LLC
Plymouth, Utah
Located adjacent to Nucor Steel at Plymouth.
| Road Number |
Builder Model |
Previous Number |
Builder Number |
Builder Date |
Date To Utah Location |
| JTPX 1204 | EMD SW9 | LT 1204 | 20089 | Dec 1954 | Dec 2001 |
General Notes:
| a. | JTPX 1204 is a green remote-controlled locomotive.(photo) |
| b. | Built in December 1954 as Florida East Coast 230; to Newburg & South Shore 1201; to Union Railroad 586; to Lake Terminal 1204; to David J. Joseph Co. as Joseph Transportation Co. (JTPX) 1204, leased to Western Metal Recycling in December 2001 (JTPX purchased by Relco in June 2004). |
East Carbon Development Company
East Carbon City, Utah
Opened in 1989 by a group of private investors; in September 1991, ECDC entered into a contract with Provo, in Utah County, to accept 80,000 tons per year of municipal waste; operations began in August 1992; in December 1996, ECDC completed construction of a rail transfer station for Ogden, Utah in Weber County, and began shipping 120,000 tons per year of municipal waste under a 20-year agreement; ECDC was sold in 1993 to USPCI; then sold to Laidlaw by November 1998.
The location is ideally located in the high desert, with low evaporation and low humidity. The facility itself is located on top of a 1,500 feet thick bedrock of shale, and not near any sources of ground water. The company serves to dispose of contaminated dirt in an approved and certified land fill located near East Carbon City, Utah, on the former D&RGW Sunnyside Branch. One of the earliest customers was from Burbank, Calif. Other customers in 1994 included earthquake rubble from Los Angeles, and in 1995, New York sent 180,000 tons of sediment from Staten Island.
| Road Number |
Builder Model |
Frame Number |
Builder Number |
Builder Date |
Date To ECDC |
Notes |
| ECCX 1110 | EMD SW1200 | 7634-11 | 1 | |||
| ECCX 4355 | EMD SD9 | 5435-11 | 21299 | Mar 1956 | bef Sep 1996 | |
| ECCX 4431 | EMD SD9 | 5365-20 | 19947 | Mar 1955 | bef Sep 1996 | |
| ECCX 9628 | EMD MP15 | 74641-8 | 74641-8 | Dec 1974 | bef Sep 1996 |
General Notes:
| a. | ECDC reporting mark is ECXX. |
| b. | ECDC locomotives were leased from Nevada Industrial Switching (NIS), a subsidiary of Mid-Am Equipment. NIS was reportedly sold to David J. Joseph Co. as Joseph Transportation Co. (JTPX) in September 1999; JPTX was sold to Relco Finance in June 2004, meaning that as of 2007, the ECDC locomotives are likely being leased from Relco. |
| c. | ECDC 1110 built as Missouri Pacific Railroad 1110; sold to Precision National (dealer) in 1985; sold to Wilson Railway Corp. (dealer) in 1986; to U. S. Steel Lorain Works ; returned to Wilson and stored on Wisconsin Central; sold to Independent Locomotive Services (dealer); to ECDC 1110 (Locomotive Notes II, Number 175, December 1993, page 13) |
| d. | ECDC 4355 was built as SP 5474, to SP 3948, to SP 4355; to Relco, leased to ECXX 4355 |
| e. | ECDC 4431 was built as SP 5406, to SP 3884, to SP 4431; to Relco, leased to ECXX 4431. |
| f. | ECDC 9628 was built as Reading 2778, to CR 9628; to Arizona & California (ARZC) 9628; to ECXX 9628; still in CR blue paint and lettered for ARZC in September 1996. |
Notes:
| 1. | ECDC 1110 was moved (sold?) as CCGX 1110 to Sarnia, Ontario; seen en route on 5 February 1998 at North Platte, Neb.; CCGX is Cando Contracting Ltd., owned by Lambton Diesel of Hamilton, Ontario. (Locomotive Notes II, Number 202, May-June 1998, page 14, reported by Mike Pohlman; additional information from The Mixed Train) Moved to Magna Frame, St. Thomas, Ont. (Locomotive Notes II, Number 203, July-August 1998, page 24, from Tempo, Jr.) |
Envirocare Utah, Inc.
Clive, Utah
Envirocare’s Containerized Waste Facility is the first commercial low-level radioactive waste disposal facility in the nation to be licensed in the 21st century and the first new site to be opened and operated since the late 1970’s.
The facility is located in Section 32 of Township 1 South and Range 11 West, Tooele County, Utah, at Clive, a railroad station on Union Pacific's former Western Pacific mainline between Salt Lake City and Nevada. This area has been designated by Tooele County as a Hazardous Industrial Zone, and is home to two hazardous waste incinerators (one active, one being decommissioned) and a hazardous waste landfill in addition to Envirocare’s operation. The Hazardous Industrial Zone is a 100-square mile area specifically zoned for hazardous waste operations away from populated cities and residential areas. The design and operation of the Clive commercial containerized low-level radioactive waste disposal facility meets or exceeds all requirements for waste form, packaging,and disposal operations.
The Clive, Utah site initially accepted uranium mill tailings-derived waste from the former Vitro Chemical Company site in south Salt Lake City, Utah. This cleanup was conducted by the State of Utah and DOE under the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project in 1988. After completion of the cleanup, 540 acres of the 640-acre site remained unused. The remaining area was then purchased by the owner of Envirocare of Utah. The facility has expanded in size and capabilities over the years, with Envirocare receiving a new license in June 2001 to dispose of classes A, B and C low level radioactive wastes.
| Road Number |
Builder Model |
Builder Number |
Builder Date |
| (?) | NW2 |
General Notes:
| a. | (research continues) |
Flying J, Inc.
Big West Oil
North Salt Lake City, Utah
Flying J Oil, Inc., purchased the 31,000 barrels-per-day oil refinerey in North Salt Lake in 1985. The refinery was built with a capacity of 2500 barrels-per-day in 1949 by the Western States Refining Company. By 1963, that capacity had been increased to 7500 barrels-per-day, and the refinery was owned by Frontier Refining Company, which operated the refinery as the Beeline Refinery. The refinery was sold to Frontier Oil Company, and in about 1965, it was sold to Husky Oil, which sold it to Flying J in 1985.
| Road Number |
Builder Model |
Previous Number |
Builder Number |
Builder Date |
Frame Number |
Date To Flying J |
| FLJX 1 | SW600 | APSX 1 | 26932 | Jan 1962 | 4449-1 | Feb 1993 |
General Notes:
| a. | Flying J is reporting mark FJLX; Flying J personnel "test drove" the unit at the Fruita refinery and leased it for use at their North Salt Lake location. (information from Norm Metcalf via email on February 19, 2007) |
| b. | FLJX 1 was built in January 1962 as Arizona Public Service Company (APSX) number 1, assigned to Cholla, Az.; sold to National Railway Equipment (NREX); leased to Gary-Williams Energy's Landmark Refining Co., for use at their oil refinery near Fruita, Colo. (the former American Gilsonite refinery), refinery closed in late 1992 or early 1993; leased to Flying J and moved in February 1993 for maintenance to Relco shop at Geneva Steel; later sold to Flying J; refinery (and locomotive) sold to Big West Oil, a subsidiary of Flying J. |
| c. | Source: Locomotive Notes II, Number 171, June 1993, page 14, reported by Don Strack and Bill Farmer |
| d. | Source: Locomotive Notes II, Number 176, January-February 1994, page 9, reported by Don Bain |
Intermountain Power Agency
Morton Salt Co.
Saltair, Utah
| Road Number |
Builder Model |
Builder Number |
Builder Date |
| (no number) | Brookville BCUT | 4211 | Jul 1956 |
General Notes:
| a. | Four-wheel diesel-torque converter |
| b. | Information from Allen Copeland, October 1982. (see also Extra 2200 South, Issue 33, March-April 1972, page 17) |
Nucor Steel
Plymouth, Utah
| Road Number |
Builder Model |
Builder Date |
Builder Number |
Date To Nucor |
Notes |
| 341 | BLW DS-4-4-10 | Mar 1948 | BLW 73575 | 1 | |
| 1000 | BLW S-12? | BLW | 2 | ||
| 660 | EMD GP30 | Sep 1962 | EMD 27569 | 3 | |
| 664 (1st) | EMD GP7 | Sep 1951 | EMD 13177 | 4 | |
| 664 (2nd) | GE B23-7 | Mar 1979 | GE 42305 | Apr 2006? | 5 |
General Notes:
| a. | At the time of Norm Metcalf's visit in March 1992, the GP30 had "Nucor Steel" lettering on long hood, the number 660 and "Corrienti's Cruiser" on the cab side, and no frame number; the GP7 was still in BN green and had a visible frame number, with Nucor Steel lettering on the long hood; both units were purchased from David Durbano of Durbano Metals in Ogden as scrap metal their furnaces, but the GP30 and GP7 were found to be in better shape than the two Baldwin units then in service; the GP30 and GP7 replaced the two Baldwins, which were cut up for scrap. (information from Norm Metcalf via email on February 20, 2007) |
Notes:
| 1. | Nucor Steel 341 was built as P&BR 341; sold to Striegel Supply and Equipment (dealer) circa October 1979; sold to Nucor Steel, Plymouth, Utah; out of service at Nucor by September 1989. |
| 2. | Nucor Steel 1000 was out of service by September 1989. |
| 3. | Nucor Steel 660 is likely ex UP 860; purchased from Durbano Metals, Ogden, Utah (photo in Locomotive Notes II, Number 141, page 10) (photo) |
| 4. | Nucor Steel 664 has a chopped nose; frame number 5072-9; built as CB&Q 208; to BN 1564; to Iowa Railroad via Dakota Rail Car; to UP as part of Iowa Railroad settlement; to Durbano Metals, Ogden, Utah; to Nucor (photo in Locomotive Notes II, Number 138, page 9) (photo) |
| 5. | Nucor Steel 664 (2nd) built as Conrail 1967; sold to National Railway Equipment Co. (dealer) circa July 1999; possibly sold to Nucor Steel, Plymouth, Utah circa April 2006. (information from Randy Keller, September 15, 2008) |
Ogden Union Station
Pacific States Cast iron Pipe Co.
Ironton (Springville), Utah
| Road Number |
Builder Model |
Previous Number |
Builder Number |
Builder Date |
Frame Number |
| (no number) | EMD NW2 | UP 1043 | 3429 | Jul 1946 | E683-8 |
General Notes:
| a. | (research continues) |
Spring Canyon Coal Co.
Storrs, Utah
| Road Number |
Wheel Arrangement |
Builder | Builder Number |
Builder Date |
Date Retired |
| 1 | 2-8-0 | Baldwin | 38837 | 1912 |
General Notes:
| a. | Delivered new to Spring Canyon Coal Company; sold to D&RGW, numbered as 958, renumbered to 915, scrapped in January 1937 (D&RGW class C-39). (from Colorado Railroad Museum roster, page 45) |
Tesoro
Salt Lake City, Utah
| Road Number |
Previous Number |
Builder Model |
Builder Number |
Builder Date |
Date To Tesoro |
Notes |
| LTEX 1125 | GS 1125 | EMD SW1200 | 27893 | Feb 1963 | Jun 2007 | 1 |
| RLIX 1005 | GVSR 301 | EMD SW1001 | 756080-1 | Oct 1975 | Jun 2008 | 2 |
General Notes:
| a. | Amoco's refinery was switched by UP until the UP-SP merger in 1996. Utah Railway then took over the interchange and in-plant switching as part of BNSF's access to Utah markets as competition to UP; Utah Railway was (and still is) BNSF's contract service provider in Utah. With Tesoro's purchase of the Amoco refinery in 2001, Utah Railway continued to provide access and in-plant switching (job RUT312) until the completion of UTA's FrontRunner North communter rail, which cut the connection and access at 1700 North in July 2007; interchange access to Tesoro is now by way of a connection between UP and UTA at 1700 North. |
| b. | (click here for some history of Tesoro's Salt Lake City refinery) |
Notes:
| 1. | LTEX 1125 was ex Geneva Steel (GS) 1125; used at Geneva Steel from November 1986 to June 2007 when it was sold to Larrys Truck Electric (LTEX) and moved for lease to Tesoro's facility; not used by Tesoro, with Utah Railway still doing the in-plant switching; moved from Tesoro to UP's North Yard in Salt Lake City in mid August 2008; moved to LTE at MacDonald, Ohio, late August 2008. (photo at Tesoro) |
| 2. | Rail Link (RLIX) 1005 arrived at Tesoro's facility in late June 2008. "Rail Link just got the contract to switch out Tesoro Oil Refinery here in Salt Lake. Utah Railway was doing the switching but lost the contract when Tesoro wanted to do their own in plant switching. At present at the Tesoro plant is a LTEX SW there but has not been used. The information I have is from the Utah Railway and was told that Tesoro and Rail Link were waiting on the two new units to come in and that they were being painted." (Ryan Ballard, January 10, 2008) Galveston Railroad (GVSR) SW1001 301 was repainted and renumbered to Rail Link (RLIX 1005) in early May 2008; moved to Denver then to Salt Lake City during early June 2008, passing through Monument, Colo. on June 5, 2008. Galveston Railroad was purchased by Rail Link's parent company Genessee & Wyoming in June 2005. (photo of GVSR 301 at RR Pictures Archives) (click here to go to Rail Link's official web site) |
Twin Mountain Rock/Rinker Materials
Murdock (near Milford), Utah
A gravel pit in the Milford vicinity that furnished ballast for UP, via a long conveyor from the pit down to a UP spur, with a locomotive being used as a facility switcher. (information from Roger Beckett, March 2006)
The KMGX reporting mark was originally assigned to Kiewit Mining Group, which was split off in 2000 as Kiewit Mining Company, then sold to Rinker Materials in 2002. The reporting mark is now assigned to Twin Mountain Rock Co., as a subsidiary of Rinker Materials.
On a visit in October 2006, Norm Metcalf found that the locomotive was still KMGX 57-602, SD9, f# 5381-6. On the long hood is Twin Mountain Rock spelled out, with A Kiewit Co. below that. It still has its rehab sticker from Omnitrax, rehabbed Loveland Apr 1998.
According to an internet search, Twin Mountain Rock is formerly Peter Kiewit & Sons, and the Milford location is doing business as a quarry for Rinker Materials, one of the largest suppliers of crushed stone and concrete products in the U.S. The quarry is located about five miles northwest of Milford, Utah, and has been in operation since 1998.
Rinker Materials has several quarries nationwide, some of which also use the Twin Mountain Rock name.
|
Road Number |
Builder Model |
Builder Date |
Builder Number |
Frame Number |
Date To Utah Location |
| 57-602 | SD9 | Jan 1955 | 20228 | 5381-6 | 1998 |
General Notes:
| a. | Twin Mountain Rock number 57-602, painted blue and white; built as SP 5377, to SP 3855, to SP 4331; to OmniTrax, to California Northern 203, returned to OmniTrax Leasing (OMLX) as 203, leased to Kiewit Mining Group (KMGX) in 1998. (information from Ken Ardinger and Norm Metcalf) . |
Utah Pomroy Morrison
Geneva, Utah
| Road Number |
Builder Model |
Builder Date |
Builder Number |
Date Retired |
Notes |
| 1 | GE 43 ton | Jan 1940 | 12574 | ||
| 2 | GE 43 ton | Mar 1940 | 12576 | ||
| 3 | GE 43 ton | Mar 1940 | 12577 |
General Notes:
| a. | Delivered to Provo, Utah; to Consolidated Western Steel Corp., Geneva, Utah (Locomotive Notes II, Number 107, February 1988 |
Utah Power & Light Co.
UP&L Hale Plant (Provo, Utah)
| Road Number |
Builder Model |
Builder Number |
Builder Date |
Date To UP&L |
Date Retired |
Notes |
| ? | Plymouth 20 Ton | 4161 | May 1941 | Mar 1958 | Jun 1977 | 1 |
Notes:
| 1. | Built by Fate-Root-Heath (Plymouth) as U. S. Army 7694 (initial assignment to Salt Lake City Air Base), Plymouth model ML-6, Type 3 (four-wheel, diesel-mechanical); to SLG&W number G-4; to Utah Power & Light (no number) in March 1958, used to switch coal cars at Hale plant at mouth of Provo Canyon; transferred to Gadsby Plant in Salt Lake City in 1973; retired from Gadsby Plant in June 1977; sold in September 1977 to Southern San Luis Valley, Blanca, Colo., out of service by 1980, with missing engine. (information from Norm Metcalf, Bob Lehmuth, and Ken Ardinger) |
UP&L Carbon Plant (Castle Gate, Utah)
| Road Number |
Builder Model |
Builder Number |
Builder Date |
Date To UP&L |
Date Retired |
Notes |
| (no number) | GE 44 Ton | 15128 | Aug 1954 | Jan 1976 | 1 | |
| (no number) | GE 65 Ton | 1942 | Oct 1977 | 2 | ||
| 5923 | EMD GP9 | Apr 1977 | 3 |
General Notes:
| a. | This information is from Utah Power & Light property accounting department on September 23, 1982. |
| b. | Utah Power & Light leased SLG&W D.S. 3 for in-plant switching at Gadsby from January to December 1978. |
Notes:
| 1. | Purchased second hand from Denver & Rio Grande Western in August 1954; for sale in July 1975; retired in January 1976; sold to Chrome Crankshaft of Illinois. |
| 2. | Purchased from Utah Metal Works, Inc., (located at Hill AFB, Utah at time of purchase); sold to Chrome Crankshaft of Illinois. |
| 3. | Purchased second hand from Denver & Rio Grande Western in April 1977. |
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