Jupiter (locomotive)

Jupiter, officially Central Pacific Railroad number 60, was a 4-4-0 American type steam locomotive built in September 1868 by the Schenectady Locomotive Works of New York, one of four identical engines that also included Storm, Whirlwind and Leviathan. The engines were shipped in pieces to California and reassembled at Sacramento, and Jupiter entered service on 20 March 1869. It is remembered because it hauled Leland Stanford's train for the last stretch to Promontory Summit, Utah, where it faced Union Pacific 119 at the golden spike ceremony that marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. Later renumbered and rebuilt, it passed through Southern Pacific and Gila Valley, Globe and Northern ownership and was sold for scrap in 1909. Other engines stood in for it in films and exhibitions until the National Park Service had a full-size replica completed in 1979 for demonstration runs at the Golden Spike site.