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| The Jupiter Locomotive of the Central Pacific Railroad is a replica of the well-known locomotive representing Central Pacific Railroad in the "Wedding of the Rails". Both the Jupiter and No. 119 were immortalized in the famous photo "East Meets West" taken May 10, 1869 by Andrew J. Russell. With no original plans or blueprints to follow, the engineers used a 1870 locomotive design engineer's handbook and micrometer scalings of enlarged 1869 photographs of the the Jupiter and No.119 to reconstruct the locomotives. The replica of Jupiter (shown in this image) was completed by 1979, the 110th Anniversary of the Golden Spike Ceremony, for the National Park Service by O'Connor Engineering Laboratories of Costa Mesa, California. |
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Originally built in 1868, at Schenectady Locomotive Works, Jupiter was one of four wood burning locomotives built for the Central Pacific Railroad. After its initial construction in New York, it was dismantled from its frame, loaded onto a ship, and taken around South America's Cape Horn to San Francisco, California.
Learn how they moved Jupiter on January 30, 1999, across the National Mall to a new setting at the National Museum of American History. |
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In 1909, the original Central Pacific locomotive "Jupiter" was sold to scrappers for the price of a mere $1,000.
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