Utah & Northern 2-6-0 "Mogul" Locomotives in the USA

Class 6 (Locobase 7863)

Data from Baldwin Locomotive Works Specification for Engines as digitized by the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University Volume 9, pp. 5, 61. (Thanks to Devon Sinsley for his 21 February 2015 email containing information on U&N 14, which Works numbers were 4425, 4429-4430 in September 1878; 4555, 4558-4559, 4561-4564 in March 1879; 4964, 4966, 4967 in February 1880; 5121-5122 in May, and 5129 in June.

Although all of these narrow-gauge soft-coal Moguls were produced to identical specs, the 1880 locomotives changed the proportions of fuel and water in the tenders, opting for 100 US gallons (378.5 litres) more water. All had the 12" (305 mm) diameter diamond stack so characteristic of Western US engines.

The U&N, itself a successor road, became part of the Oregon Short Line & Utah Northern

in August 1889. Citing Don Strack's excellent Utah Rails website (Strack, Don. "Utah & Northern Railway (1878-1889: Locomotives." Utahrails.net. Retrieved on September 28, 2014 from [].)), Sinsley reports that the 18 (ex-14) was sold in 1887 to the Coeur D'Alene Railway & Navigation Company as their 3.

Other sources trace a different route after the Union Pacific. At the turn of the century, the OSL sold the 18 to Lyons Swift & Company of Bon Secour, Ala), who renumbered it 2 and sent it up to Swift Lumber Company in Olean, NY. Swift sold the 2 to locomotive rebuilder/reseller Southern Iron & Equipment (SI&E number 111) in 1902; that agent rebuilt the 2 with 14" x 20" (356 x 509 mm) cylinders and found a buyer in Noble Lumber of Noble, La. The 2 was lettered for the Shreveport, Noble and Southern