Central Pacific Railroad - Preserved Locomotives

Preserved Locomotives

See also:List of preserved Southern Pacific Railroad rolling stock

The following CP engines have been preserved:

  • Central Pacific 1, Gov. Stanford
  • CP 233, a 2-6-2T the railroad had built, is stored at the California State Railroad Museum.
  • Central Pacific 3, C. P. Huntington
  • Former Western Pacific Mariposa, Central Pacific's second number 31. Was sold to Stockton Terminal and Eastern in 1914 and renumbered 1. Currently at the Travel Town Museum in Los Angeles.
  • Virginia and Truckee Railroad, though The Dayton was not built for, nor served on the Central Pacific, the engine was one of two locomotives built by the CP's Sacramento shops in preservation (the other being CP 233). Moreover, its specifications were derived from CP 173, and thus is the only surviving example of that engine's design.
  • Central Pacific's numbers 60, Jupiter, and 63 Leviathan. Although both engines have been scrapped, and therefore technically do not count as having been preserved, there were exact, full size operating replicas built in recent years. The Jupiter was built for the National Park Service along with a replica of Union Pacific's 119 for use at their Golden Spike National Historic Site. Leviathan was finished in 2009, is privately owned, and travels to various railroads to operate.

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