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Listen: The World ProgramDoster girls on the Jupiter & Lake Worth Railway Company steam engine #1.
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A locomotive of the "Celestial Railroad", so named because the stations along its route were named Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Juno. Construction of the narrow gauge Jupiter & Lake Worth Railroad began in 1889 and was operating by April of 1890. It was part of the Plant System. British writer Julian Ralph is credited with the nickname from a March 1893 Harper's New Monthly Magazine article where he noted the station names along the line. The "Celestial Railroad" was dismantled in 1896.
Engine type: 4-4-0.
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