Train Simulator 2019: UP 119 to Cheyenne East (with commentary)

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Published on April 11, 2019 6:25:43 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRI9rZ_nEHk

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Train Simulator Classic (2009)

Duration: 36:02

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In this video, we find ourselves transported back in time to 1860's America. That only means one thing, we're on the Cheyenne 1869 route again.

Today's run is from Cheyenne to the water stop 6 miles east of the town. Our engine for this run - as you can tell from the video title - is the famous Union Pacific 4-4-0 No. 119. Today she is pulling a short train of just three boxcars, two flatcars and a caboose. Also seen - albeit briefly - is Central Pacific 4-4-0 No. 60 'Jupiter'

Jupiter and 119 are very famous locomotives. This is because they were the two engines present at Promontory Summit (Utah) on the 10th of May, 1869. This was the day when the last spike was driven, thus completing the Transcontinental Railroad. The spike is believed to have been made of gold.

Sadly the original Jupiter and 119 were scrapped sometime between 1900 and 1910. Fortunately, full-size working replicas of the two engines were built in the 1970s, and are based at the heritage site at Promontory Summit. Interestingly, there are quite a few differences between the originals and the replicas. Namely the replicas have a boiler pressure of 160psi, while the originals only have 120psi. The replicas' boilers - I believe - are steel, while the originals were wrought iron. I honestly don't know what the other differences are.

The Cheyenne 1869 route - as well as Jupiter and 119 - were made by a developer called Smokebox, and are available on Steam. More recently he has released the Central Pacific 4-6-0 'Buffalo' and the Promontory Summit route, neither of which I have yet. Interestingly the TS versions of Jupiter and 119 are modeled on the originals instead of the replicas. How Smokebox was able to pull that off, I have no idea.

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