C&TS488fan Wrote:
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> 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
Cody, I thank you for filling in what I was unable to come up with. Am not too
well versed on the history of that particular locomotive, but you are.
Yes, she's the one..