North Pacific Coast No. 12

North Pacific Coast No. 12, named Sonoma is a 4-4-0 "American" type steam locomotive it was built by Baldwin in 1876 for the 36" gauge North Pacific Coast Railroad.

It was named "Sonoma". It hauled both passenger and freight trains on the eighty mile line between Sausalito and Duncan's Mill, California.

In 1879, #12 was sold to the Nevada Central Railroad, renumbered #5 and named "General J. H. Ledlie" after the civil engineer then working for the railroad, who had also participated in building the transcontinental railroad as a Union Pacific employee.

The locomotive worked as switcher and road engine until the Nevada Central line was abandoned in 1938.

The locomotive stayed in storage for nearly forty years until it was moved to the newly built Central Pacific Railroad Passenger Station in 1977.

Today the locomotive is on public display at the California State Railroad Museum while restored to its 1876 appearance by the museum, it is also displayed coupled to some narrow gauge passenger cars.

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The following year, #5 was renamed "Jos. Collett".
It was then acquired by Nevada Central's General Manager, J. M. Hiskey, and was loaned to the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition where it was restored to look like Central Pacific's #60, the "Jupiter" for re-enactments of the Golden Spike Ceremony at Promontory, UT.
After the Exposition, #12 was donated to the Oakland Chapter of the RLHS and went into storage in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Hiskey family donated #12 to the museum in 1978.

Locomotives of the North Pacific Coast Railroad
Steam Locomotives:	Saucelito • San Rafael • Tomales • Olema • Bodega • Valley Ford • Tamalpais • Bully Boy • M. S. Latham • Bloomfield • Marin • Sonoma • No. 13 • No. 14 • No. 15 • No. 16 • No. 17 • No. 18 • No. 19 • No. 20 • Thomas-Stetson • No. 22
Electric Locomotives:	No. 101 • No. 102 • No. 103 • No. 104 • No. 105 • No. 106 • No. 107 • No. 108 • No. 109 • No. 110 • No. 111 • No. 112 • No. 201 • No. 202 • No. 203 • No. 301 • No. 302 • No. 303 • No. 304 • No. 305 • No. 306 • No. 307 • No. 308 • No. 350 • No. 351 • No. 352 • No. 353 • No. 354 • No. 355 • No. 356 • No. 357 • No. 358 • No. 401 • No. 402 • No. 403 • No. 404
Preserved:	Sonoma