page_title: Union Pacific No. 119
section_title: Replicas
hierarchical_section_title: Union Pacific No. 119 / Replicas
caption_attribution_description: Chicago Railroad Fair. 1949 A reinactment of the Golden Spike ceremony at Chicago's Railroad Fair.
context_page_description: Union Pacific No. 119 was a 4-4-0 steam locomotive made famous for meeting the Central Pacific Railroad's Jupiter at Promontory Summit, Utah, during the Golden Spike ceremony commemorating the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. The locomotive was built by Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works of Paterson, New Jersey in 1868, along with numbers 116, 117, 118 and 120. The original was scrapped in 1903, but a replica now operates at the Golden Spike National Historical Park.
context_section_description: As was the case with the Jupiter, the Union Pacific only began to acknowledge the 119's historical significance well after it was scrapped. For a 1949 reenactment of the Golden Spike ceremony staged at the Chicago Railroad Fair the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad's locomotive number 35 was cosmetically altered stand-in for the 119; likewise the Jupiter was a proxy provided by the Virginia and Truckee Railroad.
  In 1968, the Union Pacific sponsored the construction of the Omaha Zoo Railroad in the Henry Doorly Zoo, including a narrow gauge replica of the 119, built by Crown Metal Products.
  The First Transcontinental Railroad, the National Park Service's Golden Spike site at Promontory, Utah, had exhibited representations of the 119 and Jupiter on a portion of restored track where the original ceremony was held. In this instance, the 119 was portrayed by the Virginia and Truckee's Dayton locomotive, (which is ironic because The Dayton was built by the Central Pacific Railroad's shops in Sacramento) and was displayed here until it and the Jupiter, which was portrayed by that railroad's Inyo, were sold to the state of Nevada in 1974.
  In 1975, the National Park Service embarked on a project to reproduce the Union Pacific No. 119 and Central Pacific Jupiter exactly as they appeared in 1869.  Since the original drawings had not survived, the Park Service initially approached Walt Disney Studios, which had previously built two steam engines from scratch for their Disneyland park's railroad, for the project. Disney declined, but recommended the O'Connor Engineering Laboratories in Costa Mesa, California, for the task.  Noted railroad historian and steam engine owner Gerald M. Best served as engineering consultant to the Park Service for the project.  Over 700 detailed engineering drawings were recreated, based almost entirely on the photographs taken of the engines during the ceremony. Disney animator and steam engine owner Ward Kimball did color matching and original artwork for the Jupiter and No. 119.
caption: The Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad's locomotive no. 35 dressed up as a stand-in for Union Pacific 119 in a Golden Spike reenactment at the 1949 Chicago Railroad Fair
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