Re: Can you identify the URY-SV escapee in this linup?

Tom,

Would it possibly be this locomotive?

"Jupiter" is an American type (4-4-0) locomotive built by Baldwin in 1876 for the narrow gauge (36") Santa Cruz Railroad in California. It weighs 44,000 lbs, 28,000 lbs on its, with 42" drivers and 12" x 18" cylinders. An oil burner, it operated at a boiler pressure of 140 psi delivering 7,346 lbs tractive effort. It was one of three locomotives operating on the twenty mile Santa Cruz Railroad.
The line was absorbed into the Southern Pacific in 1881 and shortly after converted to standard gauge. "Jupiter" was then sold to the Ferrocarril Guatemala Central Railroad in 1885. The FGC became part of the Ferrocarriles Internacionales de Centroamerica in 1921, on which "Jupiter" ran right up until 1960. In 1963, the Washingtonian O. Roy Chalk bought the FIdeCA.
Chalk brought "Jupiter" to DC in 1964, where it was placed on open air display in the John F. Kennedy playground at 7th and O St. Chalk then donated the locomotive to the Smithsonian in 1975. It went on display the following year as part of the 1876 Exhibition at the Arts and Industry Building. On 30th January 1999, it was moved to the American History Museum, where it has been on display ever since.

From: [www.rgusrail.com]

Cody Muse



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