(Source: San Jose Mercury News, March 18, 2014)
SAN JOSE, Calif. — On Monday, May 10, 1869, two locomotives, Union Pacific #119 and Central Pacific #60 “Jupiter,” met face-to-face at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory. The event marked the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad and it featured Bay Area tycoon Leland Stanford, driving in the final ceremonial spike which joined the rails of the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific. One of the occasion’s most prevalent photos reveals a train engineer, wearing a vest with a chain, standing on the running board of the Jupiter. By all accounts, that is Pacifican James Jefferson’s paternal grandfather, the man Jim was named after.
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