Southern Utah Railroad
This page was last updated on April 12, 2007.
Additional Sources:
- Southern Utah Railroad and Castle Valley Railway — Information about the two companies and their jointly operated line between Price and the coal mines at Hiawatha and Mohrland.
- Consolidated Fuel Company — Information about Southern Utah Railroad's parent company, and its mine at Hiawatha.
Chronology History
(see above two sources, for now)
Steam Locomotives
| Road Number |
Wheel Arrangement |
Builder | Builder Number |
Builder Date |
Date To SURR |
Date Retired |
Notes |
| 50 | 3 Truck Shay | Lima | 2274 | Mar 1910 | Apr 1910 | 1 | |
| 100 | 2-8-0 | Lima | 1088 | Nov 1909 | Oct 1909 | Nov 1916 | 2 |
| 102 | 2-8-0 | Lima | 1127 | Dec 1910 | Dec 1910 | 3 | |
| 104 | 2-8-0 | Alco | 47772 | May 1910 | May 1912 | 4 |
Gasoline Car
| Road Number |
Length | Builder | Horse- power |
Weight | Builder Number |
Builder Date |
Date Retired |
Notes |
| 100 | 58 feet, 3 inches | McKeen | 300 | 91,000 pounds | 1916 | 5 |
General Notes:
| a. | Southern Utah rented D&RGW 4-6-0 503 in July 1909, for its use until its own number 100 arrived during mid October 1909 (first track was laid at Price in mid May 1909). |
| b. | Southern Utah 50 arrived at Price, Utah, sometime between April 1 and 7, 1910; Lima records show a build date of March 15, 1910. |
| c. | Southern Utah 100 was ordered on April 26, 1909; arrived at Price sometime between October 14 and 21, 1909. (20x24 cylinders, 50 inch drivers, locomotive-only weight 159,000 pounds) |
| d. | Southern Utah 102 arrived at Price sometime between December 22, and 29, 1910. |
| e. | Southern Utah 102 was delivered in late December 1910. |
| f. | Southern Utah 104 was purchased from Alco-Schenectady stock in May 1912. The original locomotive had been ordered in January 1910 as Buffalo & Susquehanna 177, order canceled in April 1910, locomotive completed for ALCo stock in May 1910; leased to Utah Railway; Alco records show a delivery date of May 1912. |
| g. | The following locomotives were shown as being on-property at the time of an August 1911 mortgage: 50, 100, 102, 104. |
| h. | Poor's 1914 Railroad Manual shows four locomotives, page 1244. |
| i. | Southern Utah operated a McKeen car in 1917; ordered in June 1916 and delivered at Price on January 1, 1917. (91,000 pounds operating weight; 58 feet 3 inches long; 300 horsepower; six-wheel power truck). (photo) (drawing) (Trainorders.com message) The following is from Interurbans Without Wires by Edmund Keilty (Interurban Press, 1979), page 54: "One noteworthy accomplishment was production of the biggest McKeen car ever built—for the Southern Utah Railway in 1916. This car had two driving axles coupled by outside rods, and a 300-hp engine with chain drive to the axles. It replaced steam trains between Price and Hiawatha, Utah—18 miles of sharp curves and 4.92 percent grades. The 58-foot car weighed 91,000 pounds." |
Notes:
| 1. | Southern Utah 50 was sold (in 1918?) to Booth-Kelley Lumber Co. number 5, at Wendling, Ore.; then sold to Flora Logging Co. number 5 at Carlton, Ore. |
| 2. | Southern Utah 100 was transferred to United States Smelting, Refining & Mining's smelter in El Paso, Texas; moved on February 20, 1916 to D&RG's Salt Lake City shops for overhaul, numbered as USS&R 2060; needed in Mexico due to motive power shortage on NdeM due to Villa revolts, to be operated between Pachucha, Mexico and Laredo, Texas One source showed that after its service in Mexico, the locomotive became San Antonio & Aransas Pass 270, then SP(T&NO) 870. Allen Copeland adds this comment: a letter from Gerald Best describes a railway in Mexico, the Ferrocarriles Pachuca y Tampico, which was part of Ferrocarriles Mexicano. The Pachuca y Tampico had a number 4, which was reported as Lima 1211 (ed. note: this matches Castle Valley 103) , built in 1912, purchased from Utah Railway in 1918 via the Cia Real del Monte y Pachuca at Pachuca, Mexico, who later turned it over to Pachuca y Tampico as their number 4. The Pachuca y Tampico was abandoned on July 1, 1931 and the Lima 2-8-0 ended up as property of Cerveceria Moctezuma number 10 (Montezuma Beer Co.). Gerald Best wrote that he saw the locomotive in 1957 on an NdeM dead line. |
| 3. | Southern Utah 102 was leased to Utah Railway on December 1, 1917, then sold to Utah Railway as their number 2 on July 1, 1918; scrapped by Utah Railway at Martin, Utah, in September 1939. |
| 4. | Southern Utah 104 was leased to Utah Railway on December 1, 1917, then sold to Utah Railway as their number 4 on July 1, 1918; scrapped by Utah Railway in April 1956. |
| 5. | Southern Utah gasoline car 100 was in service until June 1917; dismantled by Utah Railway, combination gasoline engine and six-wheel power truck sold, carbody used as shop employee locker room at Martin until dismantled in 1990. |
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