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The Jupiter (officially known as Central Pacific Railroad #60) was a 4-4-0 steam locomotive owned by the Central Pacific Railroad. It made history when it joined the Union Pacific No. 119 at Promontory Summit , Utah, during the golden spike ceremony commemorating the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869.
No. 119 was assigned to the Union Pacific Railroad's Utah Division, carrying trains between Rawlins, Wyoming and Ogden, Utah, [2] and was stationed in the latter when a call for a replacement engine came from vice-president Thomas C. Durant, to take him to Promontory Ridge, Utah Territory, for the Golden Spike ceremony celebrating the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.
Southern Pacific 4294 is a class "AC-12" 4-8-8-2 cab-forward–type steam locomotive that was owned and operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP). It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in March 1944 and was used hauling SP's trains over the Sierra Nevada, often working on Donner Pass in California.
Fireman Second Class William Kubinec, who died when the USS West Virginia sank at Pearl Harbor in 1941, was identified in 2019 by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.
BAERA became a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational corporation in the 1960s, and created as its major project the California Railway Museum. At the beginning of 1985, the museum was renamed the Western Railway Museum, to avoid confusion with the California State Railroad Museum . [ 1 ]
Stored, California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, California 5253: Baldwin AS-616: Static display, Western Pacific Railroad Museum, Portola, California 5274: Baldwin AS-616 Static display, Western Pacific Railroad Museum, Portola, California 5399: EMD SD9/SD9E: Operational, Albany and Eastern Railroad, Lebanon, Oregon Ex-SP #4364 5472: EMD ...
Baldwin Locomotive Works (BLW) S-5 0-6-0 Static display Travel Town Museum, Los Angeles, California [19] 4442 0-6-0 Static display 4455 0-6-0 Static display 4466: October 1920 Lima Locomotive Works: S-6 (Cabside class S-51) 0-6-0 Static display California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, California [20] 5511: September 1923
180-year-old locomotive could be buried under Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn