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Jupiter (locomotive)
The ''Jupiter'' (officially known as Central Pacific Railroad #60) was a 4-4-0 steam locomotive which made history as one of the two locomotives (the other being the Union Pacific ''No. 119'') to meet at Promontory Summit during the Golden Spike ceremony commemorating the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
The ''Jupiter'' was built in September 1868 by the Schenectady Locomotive Works of New York, along with three other engines, numbered 61, 62, and 63, named the ''Storm'', ''Whirlwind'', and ''Leviathan'', respectively. These four engines were then dismantled and sailed to San Francisco, California, where they were loaded onto a river barge and sent to the Central Pacific headquarters in Sacramento, then reassembled and commissioned into service on March 20, 1869.
==Golden Spike Ceremony==
The ''Jupiter'' was not Leland Stanford's original choice for transporting his party to the Golden Spike site. Originally, Stanford's train was to be pulled by another Central Pacific locomotive, the ''Antelope''. For some distance, this train followed closely behind a regularly scheduled train pulled by the ''Jupiter''. However, at one point the two trains were to go through a cut where a logging camp resided atop the hill. Apparently, either the ''Jupiter'' did not wear the proper flag to designate an extra following close behind, or the workers had failed to notice the flag. As a result, once the ''Jupiter'' passed, the workers rolled a large log down the mountain, which struck the ''Antelope''. With the engine damaged, a message was sent to the upcoming station to hold the approaching train. There, Stanford's consist was added to the ''Jupiter''s train.
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