Golden Spike National Historical Park in Utah - where two train lines met (35 of 419)
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- čas přidán 17. 06. 2020
- We visited Golden Spike National Historical Park near Salt Lake City, Utah in August 2019. We love trains so we were excited to see two historic train replicas.
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Golden Spike National Historical Park is considered by some to be the most important site in American history west of Independence Hall.
May 10, 1869, was a landmark in American history, for it was on this date that the Transcontinental Railroad was completed - the first time a single railroad joined the East and West coasts of this vast country. On that eventful day in May, 1869, two locomotives rolled into Promontory - Central Pacific's Jupiter and Union Pacific's No. 119.
Despite their historical significance, both Jupiter and No. 119 were scrapped in the early 1900s for $1,000 apiece.
In 1975, O'Connor Engineering Laboratories in California were commissioned to reproduce them. Without the help of plans or blueprints, the engineers relied on an engineer's handbook from 1870 and photographs! After 4 years of tireless effort, the two locomotives were completed - within 1/4 inch in every dimension of the originals!
These two replica locomotives can now be seen at Golden Spike National Historical Park.
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Thanks for watching!
Thank you for sharing. That was great.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Trains always make me smile. Enjoyed your video.
Never knew about that park. Added to our list. My husband loves steam trains.
That's why we love this project - we didn't know about this place either before looking at the list of all NPS units.
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Really enjoyed that. Very informative. Tragic that they didn't save the original locomotives
I'm glad you enjoyed that!
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I've been there twice. I'm hoping to visit again this summer.
Nice! Definitely a nice place to return to.
Cool park, Thanks for the information! Hopefully I can add a stamp soon too!!
I hope so too! How many stamps do you have now?
The whole thing where the execs missed the spike and an ordinary guy drove it in really happened. All the big wigs were too plastered to see straight.
Yup, that's what they said at the reenactment too. Fascinating history details :)
Information on that NPS book you stamped? Thanks!
It's called National Park Passport. There are a few different sizes. Ours is the Collectors edition which is one of the larger sizes: shop.americasnationalparks.org/product/128482/Passport-To-Your-National-Parks%C2%AE-Collector%27s-Edition/ You can either buy it online or a lot of the national park gift stores sell them as well.
To bad I am not from utah