The Jupiter is a steam locomotive that was owned by the Western Pacific railroad and appears in The Lone Ranger.
Role in the film[]
In the film, the locomotive was first seen idled at Promontory, Utah for the Transcontinental Railroad event alongside another steam locomotive, The Constitution.
When Tonto stole the Constitution, the Jupiter sped into pursuit of its fellow train.
When Tonto knocks Cole down, holds him at gun point with his own gun and then throws back the cheap pocket watch which Cole had paid him twenty six years earlier in return for showing him and Cavendish the location of the silver, telling him it was a "bad trade", the Jupiter then derails off the wooden trestle bridge and plunges into the river below where Cole drowns.
A few days later after the Transcontinental Railroad, and The Great Train Chase, it is unknown if either the locomotive is already rescued or if it just remained there in its sunken state until it was rescued after a certain amount of time had passed.
Trivia[]
- In real life, the Jupiter was actually owned by the Central Pacific Railroad (C.P.R.R), but in the movie it was owned by the Western Pacific Railroad (W.P.R.R) unlike in the film.
- After filming the movie, the Jupiter and the Constitution were both donated to the Filmore and Western Railway Museum where they were seen in storage together until 2021, when the Filmore and Western Railway Museum sold the Jupiter and some of the rolling stock to the Volo Auto Museum in Volo, IL where it is placed on static display today.
- The locomotive was featured in Disney Infinity along with the Constitution. In addition, a sports car version of the engine was also use in the Toy Box.
- When the Jupiter was plunging off the wooden trestle bridge in "The Lone Ranger", it bears a striking resemblance to the train that also crashed off the bridge in Toy Story 3.
- The locomotive in the movie is a lot bigger than its real-life counterpart.
- The locomotive was a coal transport train for the railroad company run by Latham Cole.
- The paint scheme of what the locomotive wore in the movie was the inspiration of the one that was seen today.
- On the builder’s plate it states that it was built by the Rogers locomotive works. In reality the Jupiter was built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in 1868.
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