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

COSSB 01
?8
•As a prelude to discussing the probable costs of asking replicas
of Uaiou Pacific #119 and Central Pacific 60, Jupiter, asd
tenders, it should be stated that there is no alternative to
the replicas if the two locomotives are to be represented at
Prcsaoatory Summit. Thavs are BO locomotives like them in existence,
so far ae I have been able to determine* TMs has "been confirmed by
every "expert" I have talked to or written to on the subject* Inhere
are a few surviving old locomotives3 perhaps hair a dozen ia all,
that reseuible in some considerable degree one or the other of t3ie two
we are concerned, with, here. But they are owned either by institutions
that hold thea as a part of a collection they T ^ould not part vith, or
by Hollywood studios for srovie-mkixtg pttrposes and are not for sale.
la one instance the Pacific Coast Chapter of the
Locoiaoiive Historical Society owns an old period locomotive
locoraotive is already committed to aa outdoor railroad iraiseum projected
for San Francisco.
Congressman! David King, of Salt lake City, Utah, asked the
Stata Department to mk& ioquiry of its as^assies ia all South
American and Latin American countries concerning the possible
preaeaee in their railroad systeias of American "built locomotives of
the l86O's or lS7G*s period. It is known, of course, that aasy
locomotives in past years -were sold to these countries for their
relatively priinitive railroad systeias after the locomotives had