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https://www.nps.gov/gosp/learn/historyc ... no-119.htm
I think you'll enjoy some of the video I shot of the moving locomotives: [ youtube video ]
and [ youtube video ] It includes some of the presentation by the ranger.
FAQ https://www.nps.gov/gosp/faqs.htm
For the Love of Steam
In 1975, O’Connor Engineering Laboratories of Costa Mesa, California, accepted the challenge of reproducing Jupiter and No. 119 as they were during the Golden Spike Ceremony. With no plans or blueprints, engineers and technicians set out to build the historic American 4-4-0 locomotives. Using a locomotive design engineer’s handbook from 1870 and micrometer scalings of enlarged 1869 photographs of the two locomotives, work began on building the replicas.
A four year labor of love ensued, including two years just to create over 700 drawings. When the locomotives were ready, every dimension was within 1/4 inch of the original. It took four trucks to bring the gleaming replicas 800 miles here to Promontory Summit, Utah. Here, they were christened with water from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and commissioned into service May 10, 1979, the 110th Anniversary of the Golden Spike Ceremony.
I think you'll enjoy some of the video I shot of the moving locomotives: [ youtube video ]
and [ youtube video ] It includes some of the presentation by the ranger.
FAQ https://www.nps.gov/gosp/faqs.htm
For the Love of Steam
In 1975, O’Connor Engineering Laboratories of Costa Mesa, California, accepted the challenge of reproducing Jupiter and No. 119 as they were during the Golden Spike Ceremony. With no plans or blueprints, engineers and technicians set out to build the historic American 4-4-0 locomotives. Using a locomotive design engineer’s handbook from 1870 and micrometer scalings of enlarged 1869 photographs of the two locomotives, work began on building the replicas.
A four year labor of love ensued, including two years just to create over 700 drawings. When the locomotives were ready, every dimension was within 1/4 inch of the original. It took four trucks to bring the gleaming replicas 800 miles here to Promontory Summit, Utah. Here, they were christened with water from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and commissioned into service May 10, 1979, the 110th Anniversary of the Golden Spike Ceremony.
Sep 27 2022