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.P. 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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