V & T loco no 12(Genoa) ca 1889

V & T loco no 12(Genoa) ca 1889

Baldwin 4-4-0 built January 1873 for the Virginia & Truckee Railroad of Nevada. 57-inch drivers, driver wheelbase 8 feet, total wheelbase 21 feet 8 inches. The engine arrived when Steamboat Springs was the northern terminus of the road, and ran the first through train into Reno on September 1st, 1872. Genoa was the back-up engine, which made it busy in the accident-prone early days of the road.
1874 complicated matters further. In order to overhaul the road's passenger cars, the V&T ordered a new trainset - cars 11-14, the 'Philadelphia' train. Genoa was placed on primary service with this train in April, as Reno and Kimball cars 1-4 went in for overhaul. Genoa almost cleared its solo stint, but encountered two runaway flatcars on 30 October and left the V&T without a working passenger engine. The road's sturdy Central Pacific 4-4-0s, Columbus and Dayton, handled the train for nearly a month until Reno and the Kimball trains were ready for an overhaul. As traffic continued to spike, however, it became clear that the Kimball train was not adequate. Early 1875 found Reno and Genoa both double-heading trains consisting of the 'Philadelphia' cars, a Central Pacific coach, and four Silver Palace sleepers. This arrangement was exceptional, but heightened traffic saw the Genoa in constant service until the early 1890s. From there, the engine became less and less necessary, being rented out to the Sierra Nevada Wood & Lumber Company as a transfer engine in 1900. The Minden branch offered the V&T a new lease on life in 1905, but even then, Genoa was considered excess in 1908, and put into storage. The ticket was renewed in 1912 but the engine sat dormant for decades, serving as a parts donor. Finally in 1938 the Eastern Railroad Presidents' Conference purchased the engine and had it restored in New Haven, CT along with combine 16 to run as 'Jupiter' at the New York World's Fair. After the fair, the engine was presented to the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, which returned it to its proper identity and operated the engine out of WP's Oakland roundhouse. It reprised its role as Jupiter in 1949, and again in 1969, when it was presented to the state of California. The state prepared it for display, running it one last time in 1979 before putting it away for 'potentially operable' restoration to its 1902 condition. Today, the Genoa is leased to the Nevada State Railroad Museum, where it sits alongside sister Inyo.

Author: Daniel Gollery

V & T loco no 12(Genoa) ca 1889
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