ROGERS 119 steam locomotive TrainOCCRE

Product description : ROGERS 119 steam locomotive

Is a type 4-4-0 locomotive also called American locomotives, was built by Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works in Paterson, New Jersey in 1868, with the numbers 116, 117, 118 and 120.

The No. 119 was parked in Ogden, Utah, on a call from Thomas C. Durant, traveling toward Promontory, alerting a locomotive needed. Very similar event that befell Leland Stanford and the Jupiter locomotive.


Durant, vice president of the Union Pacific Railroad was traveling in the so-called Durant special for the ceremony at Promontory.
A swollen river had dragged some supports of the Devil's Gate Bridge.
The driver refused to cross the bridge with the locomotive for fear that it would not support the weight of it, but agreed to cross the wagons. The bridge endured and the wagons crossed successfully. But they were on the other side of the river without a locomotive. He notified Ogden and locomotive No. 119 was sent for the short trip to the promontory, where it joined the Central Pacific's Jupiter.

119 continued as a freight locomotive, being renumbered as 343. In 1903 it was scrapped for $1000.

Fantastic locomotive model which with the Jupiter miniature train completes a well-known pair of locomotives.

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