C. P. Huntington

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**C. P. Huntington**
Power type	Steam

Builder	Cooke Locomotive Works
Build date	October 1863
Configuration	4-2-4T
Gauge	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm)
Driver size	54 in diameter
Weight on drivers	18,500 lb
Total weight	39,000 lb
Boiler pressure	125 psi
Cylinder size	11 in dia × 15 in stroke
Tractive effort	3,571 lbf
Career	Central Pacific Southern Pacific
Number	CP 3, SP 1, renum 1001 in 1891
Official name	C. P. Huntington
First run	April 15, 1864
Current owner	California State Railroad Museum
Disposition	static display

C. P. Huntington is a 4-2-4T steam locomotive currently on static display at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, California. It is the first locomotive purchased by the Southern Pacific Railroad, carrying that railroad's number 1. The locomotive is named in honor of Collis P. Huntington, the third president of the Southern Pacific Company (parent company of Southern Pacific Railroad).

[edit] History and career

C. P. Huntington was originally purchased by Central Pacific Railroad (CP) in 1863 as that railroad's number 3, along with its sister engine T. D. Judah (CP no. 4). It was CP's third locomotive after Gov. Stanford (number 1, built by Norris Locomotive Works) and Pacific (number 2, built by Mason Machine Works). CP used the locomotive beginning on April 15, 1864, during construction of the western portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America.

Southern Pacific (SP) purchased C. P. Huntington from CP on February 5, 1871, and used it in light service in northern California. It was rebuilt twice, first in 1873 with new valves and again in 1888 with a new boiler built by CP's Sacramento shops. In 1888 the locomotive was also put on public display for the first time in Sacramento.

In SP's 1891 renumbering plan, C. P. Huntington was assigned road number 1001. The locomotive was placed in storage for some time until it was rebuilt for use as a lineside weed burner in 1901. Its use as a weed burner proved unsatisfactory and the locomotive was again removed from active service. In 1910, C. P. Huntington was again rebuilt and it was then kept at SP's machine shops where it remained for a few years. The locomotive was nearly scrapped in 1914; it was spared this fate by SP management so that it could be displayed at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915 after a cosmetic restoration.

C. P. Huntington is currently on static display at the California State Railroad Museum.

[edit] Working replica

California's Oakland Zoo in Knowland Park has a scaled replica of the C.P. Huntington taking kids on train rides around the zoo. This is in tribute to the many years the C.P. Huntington spent working in Oakland, CA.