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

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of Jupiter. I bave assembled as may of these as £<br />

could fisd, asd they are included in Appendix G, Ifeay of them Have •<br />

been obtained froa stereo views which fcav# survived ia certain<br />

collections, Ihe hsst collection relating to the <strong>Central</strong> <strong>Pacific</strong><br />

Railroad I have seen is the one is the Timothy Hopkins Collection,<br />

Main Library, Stanford Uaiversity, fi-nothy Bopkias was the foster<br />

sou of Mark Hopkins, one of the founding ''Big Four" of the <strong>Central</strong><br />

<strong>Pacific</strong>. fife laade a notable collection of early Amrican railroad<br />

history, <strong>and</strong> left this collection to Stanford Usiv«rsity, A valuable<br />

ites for QXU? present purpose i& a l&rge album contaiaii^; about 300<br />

stereo vierws #howiog ths qoagtruction history of the 0entral <strong>Pacific</strong><br />

Sailroad. Vas pictures cover the route from the Sacrament© docks to<br />

aad across the Sierraa, ajxd fceace over the Hevada <strong>and</strong> Utah cteserts<br />

to FroJBiontory* The pictures were taken aostly by Alfred A* Haxt,<br />

cover construction work "between 1866 <strong>and</strong> 1869*<br />

There are in addition a attmber of excellent photographs of<br />

St<strong>and</strong>ard American ^-4-G locomotives "built Toy Schexiectady about the<br />

sasse titua the Jupiter came from its shops, as indicated by tfes s&a<br />

work order numbers, Sxaasples of toese are Schenectady Uo. h72t<br />

cosapleted Janu&ry 1868 for the Utica <strong>and</strong> Black River Bailroad,<br />

almost identical to Jupiter. And there is Schenectady Ho. 577,<br />

cos^leted August l869> aad apparently idaatical to Jupiter, except<br />

for nsmin^i railroad identifications <strong>and</strong> some aspects of paint<br />

decoration. Just as a Chevrolet Itnpala 4-door hardtop today, for

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