In 1868, as America’s first transcontinental railroad neared completion, Schenectady Locomotive Works dismantled and shipped four recently built engines, numbered #60 through #63, around Cape Horn to San Francisco, then up the Sacramento River for reassembly by the Central Pacific Railroad. One of them, Jupiter (#60), was chosen to pull the lead eastbound train to Promontory Summit in Utah Territory for the historic joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad lines. First proposed in 1847 and begun in 1863, this engineering feat was guided by the vision of Theodore Judah and Asa Whitney, the technical skills of the Army Corps of Engineers, and the labor of thousands of Civil War veterans and Chinese laborers. Over six years, they built high trestles over wild rivers, blasted tunnels through the solid rock of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and laid 1912 miles of track at the cost of hundreds of lives. On May 10, 1869, Central Pacific President Leland Stanford’s coach arrived safely for the meeting with the Union Pacific’s westbound train #119 at Promontory Summit, where a golden spike was hammered into the last rail and Jupiter crossed the newly joined track, symbolically linking the East and West Coasts.