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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: August 27, 2014
Caption: The Locomotives of Golden Spike - Jupiter Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (left, center) The Central Pacific Jupiter and Governor Leland Stanford’s special train at Monument Point, Utah Territory, about 30 miles west of Promontory Summit. Alfred A. Hart, the official photographer for the Central Pacific Railroad, probably took this picture the day before the May 10th ceremonies. The Great Salt Lake is in the background. The telegraph (pole in the background (sic, foreground)) made communication between end of track construction and railroad headquarters possible.; (bottom left) The Central Pacific Jupiter and tender at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869, after the last spike ceremony. Members of the 21st Infantry regimental band pose by the locomotive. Alfred A. Hart, photographer, titled this picture, “Monarch from the West.”; (right, center) Numerous patterns fro the locomotive’s parts, such as the valve gear, driving wheels, tender and lead truck wheels, were created by O’Connor Engineering Laboratories. Wooden patterns were used to make sand molds into which molten metal was poured to create each casting.; (bottom right) Central Pacific Jupiter Principal Dimensions. Click on this image to enlarge it a read the chart.
Submitted: February 22, 2015, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p300872
File Size: 3.457 Megabytes

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