Glendale & Montrose 22 / YVT 297
Baldwin-Westinghouse Electric Locomotive 1923

The 297 is an electric locomotive which was used to pull freight trains. It was built as No. 22 for the Glendale and Montrose Railway, a 12-mile trolley line between the two Los Angeles suburbs which were its namesakes. The G&M was the only interurban railway in the Los Angeles area not to be consolidated into either the Los Angeles Railway or the Pacific Electric. The G&M provided local freight and passenger service until abandoned on December 31, 1930.  The locomotive was subsequently purchased by the Union Pacific Railroad which continued to operate electric freight service on a portion of the old G&M (down the middle of Glendale Ave., into downtown Glendale). Union Pacific renumbered the locomotive E-100.

Following conversion of the former G&M line to diesel power in 1938, the locomotive was sold to the Yakima Valley Transportation Co., an electric railway located in an apple-growing region of Washington state. It was renumbered 297 and remained in service until 1985, when it was donated to the museum by YVTC owner Union Pacific Railroad. A portion of the YVTC continues in operation today as a passenger-carrying 'Vintage Trolley' operation.

YVT 297 is maintained in operating condition and is featured regularly on the museum railway.

Additional Photos:
Glendale Montrose 22.jpg (41309 bytes) YVT 297 BW view.jpg (37213 bytes) Westinghouse ad GM22 ERJ 11-24-23 sm.jpg (113737 bytes)
On the Glendale & Montrose Early in its career on the YVT 1923 ad from Electric Railway Journal
     
YVT297 HAER 169778pv.jpg (173813 bytes) YVT297 HAER 169779pv.jpg (182780 bytes) YakimaValleyTransit297atYakimaWAMacOwenColl.jpg (340640 bytes)
In service in Yakima, Historic American Engineering Record At the Museum, Mac Owen Colleciton

Links:   

History of the Glendale & Montrose Railway from ERHA-SC web site

Yakima Valley Trolleys

 

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