For events such as the 1939 New York World's Fair and the Chicago Railroad Fair, the Virginia and Truckee Railroad's cosmetically altered Genoa locomotive stood in for the Jupiter in reenactments of the Golden Spike ceremony. 119, acknowledging neither's historical significance until well after being scrapped. The Southern Pacific, by 1901, had been placed under the control of the Union Pacific, the management of which remained largely indifferent towards both the Jupiter and the railroad's own no. In 1909, the railway, which had been acquired by the Southern Pacific in 1901, sold the engine for scrap.Ī Golden Spike ceremony reenactment at the 1949 Chicago Railroad Fair, with the Virginia and Truckee railroad's Genoa painted and lettered to resemble the Jupiter In 1893 it was converted to burn coal, and later that year was sold to the Gila Valley, Globe and Northern Railway and designated GVG&N #1. In 1891, the Southern Pacific, which acquired the Central Pacific in 1885, began renumbering its locomotives, and C.P. The locomotive also received many upgrades, including a new boiler, cowcatcher, domes, and smokestack. In the 1870s, the railroad decided to end their practice of naming their engines, and thus, the Jupiter name was dropped and the engine was simply known as C.P. When Leland Stanford's train had arrived in Toano, en route to Promontory, its engine was removed from the train and readied for another westbound train, while the Jupiter was to carry Stanford's train on the final leg of its journey to the Golden Spike Ceremony.Īfter the ceremony, Jupiter continued in service for the Central Pacific. ![]() The Jupiter was assigned to the railroad's Salt Lake Division, the third and eastern most segment of the road traveling east from Sacramento, operating in passenger and general goods services as well as construction trains from Toano, Nevada to Promontory Summit, and later Ogden, Utah. After reassembly they were commissioned into service on March 20, 1869.Ĭelebration of completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, May 10, 1869, showing the name Jupiter on the side of the tender These were then dismantled and sailed to San Francisco, California, loaded onto a river barge, and sent to the Central Pacific headquarters in Sacramento. The Jupiter was built in September 1868 by the Schenectady Locomotive Works of New York, along with four other engines of identical specifications, numbered 61, 62, 63, and 84, named the Storm, Whirlwind, and Leviathan, and Gazelle respectively. 119 at Promontory Summit, Utah, during the Golden Spike ceremony commemorating the completion of the First transcontinental railroad in 1869. It made history when it joined the Union Pacific No. ![]() The Jupiter (officially known as Central Pacific Railroad #60) was a 4-4-0 steam locomotive owned by the Central Pacific Railroad. Original scrapped in 1909, replica built in 1979 and is operational at the Golden Spike N.H.S. O'Connor Engineering Laboratories (replica)Ĥ ft 8 + 1⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gaugeĬentral Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, Gila Valley, Globe and Northern RailwayĦ0 (CP), renum 1195 in 1891, GVG&N 1 in 1893
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