After Union Pacific acquired the Glendale & Montrose Railway in 1930, this locomotive became UP No. E100. Twelve years later, after Union Pacific ceased electric operation, UP No. E100 was sold to a Union Pacific subsidiary, the Yakima Valley Transportation Company (YVT), in Washington. There it became YVT No. 297 and was in operation for many years. Upon retirement in 1985, the locomotive was donated to the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris. A Baldwin-Westinghouse boxcab locomotive, No. 22 for the Glendale and Montrose Railway Company. It bears a banner, "I'm on my way to Glendale, California, 'The Fastest Growing City in America.'"
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