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Making its way to Promontory Point, Utah, in May 1869 is the Central Pacific Railroad’s locomotive “Jupiter,” known also as Number 60. Once there, the legendary driving of the golden spike would mark the completion of the nation’s first transcontinental railroad. Leland Stanford was aboard “Jupiter” at time of this photograph. The 4-4-0 “Jupiter” was built at the Schenectady, N.Y., Locomotive Works just a year earlier, disassembled and sent by ship to San Francisco. In the foreground are several Conestoga wagons, heading west.
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