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Stockton Terminal Eastern locomotive No. 1
Stockton Terminal Eastern locomotive No. 1
Type and origin Power type Steam Builder Norris-Lancaster Serial number 12 Build date 1864
Specifications Configuration: ​  • Whyte 4-4-0  • UIC 2'Bn Gauge 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) Driver dia. 63 in (1.600 m) Length 55 ft (16.764 m) Fuel type Oil Boiler pressure 135 psi Cylinders Two, outside Cylinder size 16 in × 22 in (406 mm × 559 mm)
Performance figures Tractive effort 10,260 lbf
Career Operators Western Pacific Railroad, Central Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific Railroad, Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad Numbers WP "G", CP #31(second), SP #1193, renumbered 1215 in 1901, then 1488 in 1907, ST&E #1 Official name Mariposa First run 1864 Retired 1953 Disposition static display at the Travel Town Museum

Stockton Terminal and Eastern No. 1 is a 4-4-0 steam locomotive originally built in 1864 by Norris-Lancaster for the first Western Pacific Railroad. The railroad's engines were lettered rather than numbered, and as such this engine received the "G" designation, as well as given the name "Mariposa." The engine operated on the Western Pacific until the late 1860s when the road went bankrupt and was subsequently purchased by the Central Pacific Railroad.

In 1869, the Central Pacific had re-designated the engine as the road's second number 31, replacing another engine of that number which was destroyed in an accident that year, and continued to serve the CP, as well as the Southern Pacific Railroad (which absorbed the road in 1885), until 1914. The engine is believed to have been stripped of its name in the 1870s, when the CP had ceased its practice of naming engines, and has been renumbered 1193 in 1891. The engine was renumbered 1215 in 1901, then again as 1488 in 1907.

In 1914 the engine was sold to the Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad, and served that road until 1953. In that year, the engine was retired from 89 years of revenue service and donated to the Travel Town Museum, where it is currently displayed.

See also

• List of preserved Southern Pacific Railroad rolling stock

References

1. "Stockton Terminal & Eastern RR No. 1". Steam Locomotive.info.
2. ^ Hilton, George W.; Due, John F. (2000) . The Electric Interurban Railways in America. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. p. 413. ISBN 0-8047-4014-3.
3. "Travel Town: Locomotives: Stockton Terminal & Eastern #1". Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016.

External links

• Travel Town Museum Foundation

• Individual locomotives of the United States
• Southern Pacific Railroad locomotives
• 4-4-0 locomotives
• Standard gauge locomotives of the United States
• Railway locomotives introduced in 1864
• Preserved steam locomotives of California