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| Title: |
Replicated 1860s Engine is Newest Operating U.S. Steam Locomotive in 2009 (editor's title) |
| Creator: |
Koshollek, Henry A.
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Description:
From 1999 to 2009, Dave Kloke, a Chicago businessman, worked to create a replica, "The Leviathan," of the steam-powered "Jupiter," the Central Pacific's locomotive at the Golden Spike ceremony on May 10, 1869. Kloke's "sister of Jupiter" has been hailed as "a masterpiece" by John H. White, Jr., the dean of U.S. railroad historians and curators. Kloke used a shop in West Chicago, Illinois; the locomotive first ran on June 23, 2009, at Elgin, Illinois, at the Fox River Trolley Museum. It then made an impressive public debut at TrainFestival 2009 in July at Owosso, MI, where this image was taken. It is a 4-4-0 and No. 63 and uses oil as fuel, not firewood as used by Jupiter. Otherwise it is complete to the last detail and very finely engineered and constructed. The National Park Service had two similar replicas created by O'Conner Engineering in 1979 for its Golden Spike park at Promontory, Utah. Leviathan is the newest steam locomotive in the U.S. as of 2009. |
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| Classification: |
Equipment and Technology (LCSH)
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| Date Created: |
2009-07-23 |
| Resource Type: |
Image (DCMI Type Vocabulary)
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| Format: |
Digital
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| Rights: |
Henry A. Koshollek |
| Coverage: |
Spatial, Owosso, Michigan; Temporal, July 23, 2009 |
| Extent: |
12.3 megapixel RAW file |
| Source: |
Henry A. Koshollek, Stoughton, Wisconsin |
| Depicted Railroad: |
Great Lakes Central Railroad
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| Location: |
Owosso, Michigan |
| Equipment, Locomotive: |
4-4-0 no. 63 |
| Builder, locomotive: |
David Kloke |
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Creator Description:
Henry A. Koshollek, a photojournalist, worked for the "Capital Times" in Madison, Wisconsin, from 1977 to 2008. He received a master's degree in art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1991. |
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| Collection: |
Henry A. Koshollek Collection |
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