Full Size Printed plan to build a wooden 1:18 Southern Pacific Engine No.1

Full Size Printed plan to build a wooden 1:18 Southern Pacific Engine No.1

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How to Build a Model of a Pioneer Diamond Stacker

Scale 1:18

Length 19 ½”

Width 3”

Height 8 ¼”

Full-size printed plan on a 24” x 38” sheet

Seven-page article with building notes and photos

By ALFRED D. SLATER

BEFORE the first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, several locomotives were shipped to the West Coast by way of Cape Horn. One of the engines carried by this long sea route around South America was the now famous C. P. Huntington, a 4-2-4 diamond stacker built at Paterson, N. J., in 1863 and given its first trial run at Sacramento, Calif., on April 8, 1864.

This old wood-burning pioneer is carefully preserved today at the Southern Pacific station in Sacramento. Before being retired, it had seen the coming and going of many a new locomotive that dwarfed its 29' length. Named for a famous railroader who helped found the Central Pacific and who later was president of the Southern Pacific, the Huntington originally went into service as No. 3 on the Central Pacific lines, but later, when the Central had become the Southern, was designated as No. 1 of the latter system, a distinction it proudly retains today. In 1920, motion-picture audiences saw it in action the picture "Iron Horse."

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