cars still exist on their original trucks with cut down domes and added tool boxes in Chama, New Mexico. In 1962, 16 of the heated equipped cars were sold to the White Pass & Yukon and, with the refinery closing in Alamosa that year, the remaining cars were sold to Floyd W. Reed of La Jara, Colorado for scrap in 1963.
A number of these cars were pre- served after their service on the White Pass ended. Six can be seen in Chama, New Mexico on the Cumbres & Toltec, one has been restored on the Sumpter Valley near Baker, Oregon, one is found at the British Columbia Forestry Museum in Duncan, B.C. and two oth- ers can be seen at the Colorado Rail- road Museum in Golden, Colorado. Note that the cars came back from Alaska riding on
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Foundry trucks, which were originally under the Van Dyke UTLX cars. Only the two water cars retain the as-built trucks, although the Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec has obtained six sets of the original trucks last summer and plans to get the cars on those as they have time and manpower. These trucks were retrieved from the Adler Gulch Shortline in Montana. Charles Bovey, owner of Virginia City at the time, ob- tained the trucks from the scrapper in Alamosa and put them under the ex- F&CC cars he rescued from the Mon- tana Southern. The Colorado Railroad Museum is looking into obtaining
trucks for their cars also, but nothing is confirmed at this date. The “Type V” or Van Dyke cars were leased in 1937 to haul road oil for the U.S. Highway 160 paving project. Named for Union Tank Car Line em- ployee and inventor John Van Dyke, these cars rode on a special reinforcing bolster and the tank body itself acted as the frame. Van Dyke had actually invented this design in the early 1900’s but conservative railroads insisted on using the “tried and true” steel frame as seen on the narrow frame cars. By the 1930’s, the Van Dyke design had proved itself, and cars of the 6,500 gal- lon capacity were available to convert to narrow gauge. Some 18 of the 55000 series and seven of the 58000 were used for this conversion, with the cars again keeping their original UTLX numbers. The tanks were shipped to Alamosa on standard gauge trucks, (with the road oil already loaded in!), and they were then placed on 50,000 pound capacity cast-steel
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trucks borrowed from D&RGW 34-foot stock cars. Conversion proved to be simple enough that additional cars in the 55000 series were placed on nar- row gauge trucks as traffic warranted, and converted back to standard gauge when the demand slackened. The Rio Grande insisted at the end of 1939 that the cars needed higher ca- pacity trucks, and the UTLX provided 25 sets of 60,000 pound capacity Bet-
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