Union Pacific Locomotive #119 and Central Pacific Locomotive #60 ...

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bound for Promontory IS&smit ?rhere the ceremosy of ^oiaisg tlie
rails ws scheduled to be held two days later, ©a Saturday May &„
Departing & few Minutes after the regular traia tms Stanford's
special traia earryiag the railroad'9 president &ad &i# party.
They were bound for Promontory-fa* t&& cen&aony* I hav® fcrund ao
coatei^orary record which names the locomotive pulling either train
from Sacramento on May 6. One of the guests on Stanford's special
trais said it consisted o& the loeosjotivs, teader, and the
"superintendent V car. She latter bad been fitted for sleeping
(Quarters for 10 persons.
wrote aa article in 1956* presumably based oat Sotit&ern F&eific
records, la «hieU 1^ states that the Antelope w$s %ha loecaaotiv©
seldcted to pull Goverao? Stanford's special train from Sacramento.
He goes on to say that ''scanewiiere along the line the Antelope was
knocked out Toy a blast that sent a p$le of rocks over iato lier.
She Jupiter was ia tba house at Srucfcee and waa fuiekly fired im^
a»d s^de tl^ M up tha hill to where the prssi4@at r s trsla waa
stilled. She helped to rd-3?all the Antelope, and thea dra^sed. her
aad the traia to fruofcee.. FPOBJ tbere oa the Jupitar took the ~ - -.-> ^
6, David Ii, Josljn, Steain ioooraotives of the Southern i&cifie
yi, ! " aa annex ia Gerald M Best and David £. Josl^ya, "Iioeoiaotive
of tfee Southern I^cific Cozgasy, 1 ' Railway and Locomotive ffistorical
Society Bulletin, Bo. $k, mrvh 1956, 157-