Tags: Locomotive.
El Gobernador was a 4-10-0 steam locomotive built by Central Pacific Railroad at the railroad’s Sacramento California shops. It was the last of Central Pacific’s locomotives to receive an official name and was also the only locomotive of this wheel arrangement to operate on United States rails. At the time it was built El Gobernador was the largest railroad locomotive in the world. Its name is reminiscent of the railroad’s first locomotive Gov.
