DOLLARS 1976 FIRST DAY STAMP CANCEL LOUISIANA & McQUEEN'S JUPITER 1868 00

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DOLLARS 1976 FIRST DAY STAMP CANCEL LOUISIANA & McQUEEN'S JUPITER 1868 00
F - 1935 L (L
A Block)
S/N L 19778172 A
CH UNC 63
The face side has two postage stamps
1976 U. S. BICENTENNIAL STATE FLAG ISSUE
13 c, STATE FLAG FROM
LOUISIANA
1994 COMMEMORATIVE S (continued)
29 c, McQUEEN'S JUPITER 1868 U.S.A.
Also has post seals: APR 13, 1976 & JAN 18, 2015 SAN FRANCISCO, CA
(seal 100% guarantee )
The Jupiter (officially known as Central Pacific Railroad #60) was a 4-4-0 steam locomotive owned by the Central Pacific Railroad.
It made history when it joined the Union Pacific No. 119 at Promontory Summit,
Utah, during the Golden Spike ceremony commemorating the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.
The Jupiter was built in September 1868 by the Schenectady Locomotive Works of New York,
along with three other engines, numbered 61, 62, and 63, named the Storm, Whirlwind, and Leviathan, respectively.
These were then dismantled and sailed to San Francisco,
California, loaded onto a river barge, and sent to the Central Pacific headquarters in Sacramento.
After reassembly they were commissioned into service on March 20, 1869.
The Jupiter was not Leland Stanford's original choice for transporting his party to the Golden Spike site. Originally,
Stanford's train was to be pulled by another Central Pacific locomotive, the Antelope.
For some distance, this train followed closely behind a regularly scheduled train pulled by the Jupiter.
However, at one point the two trains were to go through a cut where a logging camp resided atop the hill.
Apparently, the proper flag to designate an extra following close behind either had not been worn by the Jupiter, or had been
unnoticed by the workers, and once the Jupiter passed, the workers rolled a large log down the mountain, which struck the Antelope.
With the engine damaged, a message was sent to the upcoming station to hold the approaching train.
There, Stanford's consist was added to the Jupiter's train.