The Golden Spike - The Race to Promontory Exhibit
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- The Union Pacific is sending their restored Big Boy locomotive and items from their museum along with the The Golden Spike from California.
A traveling show titled "The Race to Promontory" will be in Salt Lake City through May 10th 2019. The show started in Omaha Nebraska and will conclude in Sacramento California after the recreation of "The Great Event", the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10 1869.
The show includes a collection of photographs and artifacts including The Golden Spike and two of the other ceremonial spikes used in the original celebration.
The show also includes 150 photographs and hundreds of stereographs of the building of the railroads. Some of the photos are one of a kind, no other known copies exist. (Those will not be shown in the video).
Other artifacts include jewelry made for leftover gold from the golden spike, a gold coin flattened by the first locomotive across the finished rails and other historic artifacts.
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umfa.utah.edu/race-to-promont...
I really wish I could come to Utah to celebrate 150 years of the driving of the Golden Spike. My budget is too tight to fly all the way. I know I’m a resident of the East Coast of the US. But the Union Pacific is totally showing me history in the Railroad. I totally thank them for that. It’s going to be exciting seeing the Big Boy under steam to celebrate this piece of railroad history. A goodwill ambassador of steam engines.
As captain Ahab said in Moby Dick “no need to look, I’ll look for you”.
ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO AWESOME INFORMATION AND COMMENTS THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND EFFORT I DO APPRECIATE IT AND YOU BOTH BEST SCREWING AROUND DAY EVER .THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEO. 👍👌😁
I’m so glad I found your channel! Yours is the gold standard for information. Fascinated with everything Transcontinental railroad.
I don’t get around too much these days, so your videos are a blessing.
Dale & Karyn, this was one of your best videos ever! What history! You're really getting people excited about the upcoming golden spike ceremony sesquicentennial. I really loved how you showed all those vintage photographs (especially the old stereographs) as well as the original golden spike and the companion spikes from Arizona territory and Nevada state. But the best is yet to come when the thunderous Big Boy arrives fully restored this May to join in the sesquicentennial celebration. I can't wait to see your coverage of that!
-from Tom Pilling
Hi Tom. They will be firing 4014 in the next few weeks if not days. So close but at this point they have gone top secret on us. They want a huge media splash when it rolls out. So for now, crickets. Interesting show tomorrow morning. Check that out
I am a blind man and I love the way you described everything listening to your videos are very enjoyable I Love Trains grew up next to the Kansas City Southern railroad tracks in Kansas City Missouri before I lost my eyesight seen a lot of neat stuff go down the track
Can't wait to hear that Big Boy 4014 run again
Good morning. Sorry to hear you lost your sight. I was a sound designer my whole life. still am only now just for fun, but getting the sound correct is what I love to do. I'm glad you listen to you tube. Hope you have a way to get out as hear these things in person. The feel and sound and smell of a huge locomotive is something to experience .
I'm so looking forward to the Golden Spike anniversary.
As always, another great video from our favorite art of screwing around folks!
Always a fun celebration! This year will be monumental! Thanks for your viewership!
Great great great video of history! I learned a lot and saw the spike I will probably never see in person as I’d likely never find it.... that is to say I’d know where it is but probably won’t make it there... anyways... I’m going to share this with my daughter as it truly is a great representation of our Americana History! The good the bad and all in between... thank you!
It may be 50 years before they are in one place again. If ever. This is the first time since the golden spike 150 years ago.
Wow, this is my fave video thus far! I sure wish I could get out there for all this great railroad stuff going on in May! However, when I was in advertising sales, I did go out to Promontory during my travels. Needless to say, I was absolutely enthralled. It was up in the high desert in the middle of what seemed like nowhere, and I loved it.
Thanks so much you two for making it possible for me to live all this vicariously! xo Lisa
Take a look on Friday. Yup Friday. New series. Look what we found. Follow up on today’s show .
@@ToyManTelevision Awesome! I sure will! thanks for the heads up! Lisa
I cannot wait to see the Big Boy steaming up and its first movements under its own power since it went cold.
Sheesh! Me either! Dale's first report of the Big Boy, very early in the channel, moved me to tears. To see this giant of the railway, moving under it's own power, will surely turn on the tears again. I guess I had better bring a few tissues along. I sort of feel like the expecting parent, awaiting this wonderful event!
So excited! Great episode and I can't wait for the ceremony!
Us either!! We are marking the days on the calendar! Very exciting!
Very interesting history! Looking forward to seeing more videos for the 150th anniversary.
Thank you so much for sharing this!
Thank you, for the history lesson.
Very welcome. Check back Friday.
Great collection of photographs
No kidding.. Right? Simply amazing!!
awesome video,also your haircut looks very nice i noticed right away, i also took notice of karyns coat it looks nice as well and plus purple is my favorite color,that golden and silver spike is amazing,i really liked the history you talked of as you went through the meuseum,but i loved seeing the bigboy that guy walking alongside was only as tall as the wheel and thats incredible shows the true size and i feel 4014 earned and deserves all the love and attention from its care takers,driver,fans and i feel its amazing as well that it is getting a new lease on life which it so deserved and despite its technical age it been on earth
ails it out lived most of its own kind as well as alot of mordern diesel and so goes to show that everything was better made back then and so my hats off to union pacific.for having a heart of gold and realizing what a catastrophic loss that would be therefore dedicating everything they have to bringing 4014 back from extinction.
Hi. Yes that’s an amazing machine it’s in the dark right now. All it top secret. Which tells me Union Pacific has a lid because they are in final stages of the rebuilding. UP has its own film and video people and I’ll bet they are really close to lighting the boiler and driving out into the daylight. Anyway I do know it’s ahead of schedule and well be in Utah!! Wow!!!!!!
Very informative video Dale and Karen. Nice job!!
Thanks!!
SUCH A BIG THING ITS WHY ITS CALLED BIG BOY AWESOME GOOD VIDEO VERY COOL AND INTERESTING THANK YOU BOTH FOR YOUR TIME AND EFFORTS. JIM KAMMERER OF PHILADELPHIA PA. 👌👍👍👍👍👍🙂
Hi. We spent the day wandering in the desert today. We had heard that union pacific is still running a caboose on a branch line out there. And it turned out to be true! Took us a while to figure it out but we found the caboose. So it is not a completely dead thing there are still cabooses in use you just really have to look for them.
Winter must be wrapping up...you got a fancy short hair cut...good episode too😁
I learn so much from your videos and get to see a lot of interesting stuff! Keep up the fantastic work!
Thanks for the kind words! Thanks for your viewership!
"It's tough sledding" this morning on this new confuser gizmo Still launches precious moment onto the vacuum of who knows where at the resting of a digit on a key.. Such it has been trying to leave comments on this here your tube. As always a well presented show. Livi ng in San Francisco of course the golden spike I know of was at the Stanford Library. The legends and myths surrounding the true golden spike are what tall tales are all about. As always, a very well done Toy Man episode. Greg and Jeanne
I loved your video. What wonderful look into railroad history.
So amazing to see these things. A really interesting story on Friday. Yup. Friday. Take a look.
Great show! Thanks!
Thanks! And Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the great history lesson, great movie. Charles McClure
I love the fun you have together. The laughter and goodwill are marvelous. You are a joy to enjoy each week. Thanks for getting us ready for the 150th. Wonderful. - Dean from cold Minnesota.
Thanks!! We do have some fun too!! Stay warm. Dang it cold outside
Great video, what an awesome event the 150th is going to be
Thanks for sharing all that history
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If you are coming go to spike150.org. Important info about events and tickets.
Super video... always learn many things.... the bridge, or trestle does look flimsy, but notice it's formed with all triangles... the strongest shape in engineering.
Indeed. The photo is taken from the fill the CP is building right next to it to replace it. I went to google earth and the “Big Fill” is a walking path at the National historic site but the terraces for that trestle are still there. Untouched. Exactly las in that photo. I wonder if any bolts or ?? Survive in the area where the trestle stood?
Gosh guys, love the new background music and this is one of your best vids to date....way to go and thanks, loved it!
Thanks. Follow up on Friday! Take a look.
BEST CHANNEL EVER!!! I cant wait for may!!
Awww! Our hearts are all a flutter! We can't hardly wait for May either! Thanks for watching!!
Good video! As always! Thanks from Barcelona
Thanks!!!!!!
Awesome history and photos.
Right?? This was a wonderful exhibit!! Thanks for watching!
Karyn Felix-Angell Love your Felix the cat icon. Sad that most kids today don’t know who that is. Nor Crazy Cat or even Betty Boop.
Thanks for the memories!😊👍🚂🚂🚂
You are welcome
General Stanford presented one of gold, silver and iron from Arizona. The last tie was of California laurel. When they came to drive the last spike. GovernorStanford, president of the Central Pacific, took the sledge and the first time he struck he missed the spike and hit the rail.
Yes. After they placed the four ceremonial spikes, they removed the Laurel tie and the four spikes and replaced it with a regular wooden tie. Governor Stanford attempted to drive the final spike into the plain wood tie and couldn’t do it. In fact no one there could. So one of the railroad workers took over and actually drove the final spike. So the actual final spike was a normal iron spike driven in to a regular CP tie by an unknown worker.
Yes your hair cut looks good, I see others have already mention of it.... LOL...
I sure am grateful that you kids get to see all these cool things of railroad history, and that you record it and share it with us.
My plans were to go see the museums and stuff myself on my motorcycle. But things happen. Being I'm physically unable to travel at this point and time in my golden years. That's why I overly grateful that you kids are bringing it to me here on You Tube. Some day I hope to go to the places and see it all myself, and I'm sure one day I will. But until then I'll be right here waiting to see all the goodies you kids send my way... Once again THANK YOU!!!!!
Soo with much love and prayers, be blessed... BBE...
Do be well! Ride that thing when you can. We have a fun exciting show on Friday. Follow up on today’s show. Found something fun. Perhaps even important. Naw. But interesting
Very interesting history lesson .
I love hearing these stories! If only history could have been this inspiring in school!!
Those are great pictures. I'm modelling the mid to late 1800s on my N scale layout. Keep'm coming. Thank you.
Love that era!!!!!!!!
As usual, well done! I regret I won't be able to make it to the ceremonies; but, somehow I believe you'll provide coverage where possible.
Take a look on Friday Yup the new Friday show, “look what we found while screwing around”. Follow up on today’s show.
Well yeah! The Central Pacific had to cut through the Seirra Nevada and all points east to Promontory Summit plus cross the American River who knows how many times. The U. P. just followed the rivers careful to stay above the flood plains.
Yup. CP started first but had a huge task ahead. UP had Sherman Hill and the Wasatch. But mostly followed a well known route along a river.
Interesting!
Now I know that you two were screwing around. The new infamous blue button did not show up on the video at all. But the old blue button was there in its full glory for the full length video. But besides that minor error this was a great piece of First Class screwing around. Keep up the great work.
Ahhhh!!! That ole Blue Button! Once in a while, it just rolls off somewhere! Thanks for watching! Oh! We did find the Blue Button... Someone was using it as a Frizby!
Union Pacific had a hair pin railroad spike that’s made of stainless spring steel and I found it. It was in Utah it’s very beautiful and it has TLS on top that means the last spike
So exciting! Many upcoming events happening soon!! No drooling on the displays! LOL!!!
As a civil engineer I can tell you that the instrument you show as Dodge's "transit" is actually a wye level for determining the elevations of things and the grade. It is used along with a transit for laying out the grade of the railroad. I have a level like that one, a Gurley, and a Buff and Berger transit along with the tripods. A transit is used for horizontal angles and laying out curves while a level is for measuring the difference in elevation of different points to determine or lay out a vertical grade.
The CP used 60 lb rail and the UP used 56 lb rail. Yes the UP used round ties with a flatten surface for the rails for all but the tie under the joints which was hewed square.
Both railroads used trestles to temporarily bridge ravines quickly and filled them in as permanent grade after the track laying crew had advanced. There are several photos of the CP filling a tall curved trestle with a train on it. All of these ties and timbers were untreated so they only lasted about 4 or 5 years before needing to be replaced.
There was another spike in the group used in the laural tie made of gold and silver. The dents in the top of The Spike were from the army officers taping on it with their sword handles.
I wondered about the dents! Makes sense. Not sure on levels and such. Film splicers yes. Survey equipment? I think they use a tripod? Glad you straightened that out. What you can’t see well in the photo is the fill already being built next to the trestle. CP had graded all the way to Ogden. And UP graded all the way to Nevada in places. And in Nevada. Long story why. Bet you know. But CP already had a good grade so they abandoned the UP grade. Only feet from theirs, and finished the “big fill” next to that trestle. Fill is still there.
I paused on the stereograph so I could get my viewer. It worked!!!!! 3D!
Figured out how to turn them into animation today!! New show!!
Pretty cool!
indeed!
On the 3D images.. Just blurred my vision and voila was in 3D. Really neat!
Even though I'm not a fan of trains this is a great video. Very informative and interesting.
Really fun stuff. Getting ready for th GSL Model car show also in May. Days before the gold spike.
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I MISSED THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (my Uncle and I were at Ogden and Promontory May of this year)
Excellent video guys! I have been invited to come out but work is a priority hahaha. You guys have fun!- Joey
Screwing around takes precedents over work. However money takes precedents over most everything else
@@ToyManTelevision amen!
This a great video. Also one of My friends birthday is today, March 4th. She's now 14.
Great video, Dale! I was almost in tears just thinking about what a great achievement that was for our country. All centered around commerce, such a bad thing today. Also, so sad about the Chinese. Thanks!
Check the show Friday. We stubbed onto something. Talked to historians at Promontory about it. Amazing find.
My birthday! Though not the same age!!! ;-)
Happy one.
The engineers don't wave from the trains anymore, not like they did back in 1954.
Niles Canyon Railway (www.ncry.org) in Alameda County in California is a historic railroad that is running on the original Transcontinental Railroad path that linked Sacramento to the San Francisco Bay. They are also planning many exciting events this year in celebration of the 150th anniversary.
The more of these Golden Spike videos you upload the more excited I am getting for the road trip in May. Do you have any suggestions on things to do or see for someone spending a few days in the area for the event? Keep up the superb work!
Hi We have been wondering how they are going to manage the crowds at Promontory They say they expect 30,000. We assume there will be a lot more. We just found out how that is going to work. It's a ticketed event and they are limiting the number of tickets to be sold through a lottery. Tickets go on sale April 1 at 10:00 AM Mountain at spike150.org/. Few know yet. But they will sell fast. Be online on the 1st!! Grab fast!!
I cant wait to be there myself and other Ames family will be there.
And we have pictures no one has seen that will be shown!
Do check with spike150.org. Not sure how they are organizing this but so many coming they are limiting the tickets which go on sale April 1. Given what you have you probably should contact them.
In 2021 Pennsylvania railroad will have their anniversary of 175 years as the railroad. 1846-1968 was when the dates were in operation
I think my uncle worked for them. Chicago I know after merging he ended up on penn Central. Electric guy. Got me into an F9 where I fell in love with the F units.
+ToyMan *In the exhibition cited, all the photos were contact-printed by the Daguerre process from collodion-on-glass originals* - gelatin dry plates wouldn't be available until 1872.
Hi. I had a chance to take some tin type photos ten years ago. Always wanted to attempt a daguerreotype. Most if not all of the prints in the show, other than the huge ones, are original 18th century prints. Several only known examples. I avoided shooting those as they asked for no photos to protect the originality of those. Not sure I agree but their photos their rules. Wet plates are a real challenge. Making the film on site in a tent or trailer. But not boring
If you haven't been to Roanoke yet, you guys should come and film at the transportation museum, they've got air, land and sea, the Norfolk and western j-class 611, and more. Its really nice you should go.
Really want to. Check Friday. Interesting story
Here's a fun trick... if you want the "3-D" effect, pause on the stereoscope photos, and cross your eyes, making the two images as one, and you'll see how they should look through the viewer.
We just discovered a new affect too! I’m turning a bunch of those into animations! Neat trick. Like seeing film shot in 1860!
I didn't know you folks are from Salt Lake!!
Yup!! Karyn is originally from Sanpete County. And while I’ve been wondering the world a bit we are back in the house I grew up in. In Salt Lake City.
Dale,
Good little story, Sad how those throughout history lie about things and leaves out those who helped built it.
They were treated so badly. The excuse for.not allowing them at the event is the Irish would kill them. And they might have tried. They had killed many out on the line. What a time. Hope we are better than that now.
Hey guys, not sure if you bother to keep up with all the comments. But for what it is worth the disinformation about the Union Pacific wooden trestle is not much different than the story you were told as kids about the Spike at the Capital being the real spike. No harm done really, but history is only as good as it is recorded and taught. So as a teacher yourself, please imagine how a railroad would best traverse a small or even a large valley back in that day without the access to the earth moving and tall structure building equipment we so readily have nowadays. Also try to consider the logistics and demands of the railroad... if you had access to large amounts of dirt and fill and labor, rather than wish to build a more permanent bridge in any given area using expensive luber from a mill hauled to the site while the railroad wait till the bridge is 100% done to move forward, you might opt to fill a valley and make your own roadbed.
Now each site is different. Some valleys have streams and any valley can hold water as it traps storm rain or a spring freshet, so often large culverts are often built where needed and then a cheap quickly constructed wooden trestle (scaffolding) is constructed across the valley in question...built just well enough built to support the steam power of the day and several cars loaded with dirt or small stone. If you have access to thousands of workers, as they did, even flat cars with sides built up to resemble a gondola were built, filled hauled and then and emptied into the valley below the trestle one shovel full at a time and the wooden scaffolding slowly gets covered hour by hour day by day until it the valley is filled and then heavier gravel hauled in to hold things in place (ballast) and new ties set under the rails.
Many filled sections of track were created in this very way, quickly and cheaply all across the country, even automobile roads and dams were constructed, using little railroad operations hauling fill. The Plymouth Diesel and Gas powered engines and side dump cars that dumped equally on both sides were famous for this very purpose. And in cases like this one, the railroad would have moved on and crews with an engine and cars left behind to fill the gap and then catch up.
Just so you know, not go into the whole story about how the Union Pacific did terrible work because they had little incentive to do it well... Rumors like this are not history, even if they make a story sound more interesting. Nice job on the series of videos BTW... I have enjoyed many of the places you two have been. Thought I'd help out with this one. Randy
Hi. There are 4 huge trestles in final show on the railroads of John Young that were covered with fill in that way. One is gone, destroyed by a freeway but 3 are still intact and in one case the fill is eroding and the top few feet of the wood trestle are now showing. The stringers are gone. I assume they were removed and the fill raised with ballast. Really great to see the old trestle.
In the case of the UP trestle at Promontory the story as told is correct. Congress declared that the meeting place would be Promontory summit based of speed the railroads were laying track. It was a race but not in the way people think. It was about money. The railroads received money and land for each mile of track laid so the goal was lay as much as you could. And the contest was, in part, over who would reach Ogden first. And control shipping to the Mormon capital and planned branch lines. When it became obvious that the UP would get there first this opened a debate over just how the interchange between the two railroads would actually work. This is partly why congress got involved. That and if a meeting place was not set by law the railroads would have no reason to stop laying track as long as the government is paying the bills. UP would have continued all the way to California. Why not? So the compromise congress voted in was join the railroads at Promontory. But the division point and interchange would be Ogden. In other words the UP would be required to build track from Ogden to Promontory, paid for by the government, and then surrendered to the CP. The CP had already been building grade as far as Wyoming. After congress set Promontory as the meeting place they continued working on their grade as far as Ogden. The UP track was Notoriously inferior. They were using cottonwood logs as ties. Because of a lack of proper wood in Wyoming. Once the railroads were joined they planned to cut proper ties that could easily be brought in from California. As CP already had grade to Ogden and proper ties their plan was to abandon the UP track. The Big Fill at Promontory was already under construction when the railroads were joined. The photo of the UP temporary trestle was taken from the CP fill under construction right next to trestle. If you google map the area the fill is not only intact. It’s in perfect shape! And the site of the trestle can be seen just 200 feet south of the fill. I’m not sure how long the temporary trestle was used but not long. as UP knew it was temporary and were paid the same for temporary or final track, or more to the point the UPs version of final track.
How many Gold Spikes are there ? According to the rail road there was one at LANG STATION in Santa Clarita Calif ?
I have the real original last golden spike from promontory utah back in 1869
Do you have an estement when the bigboy will be out running? And are they going to have a special event at Promontory Summit Utah?
They are not saying anything. Yet. I’m betting they will be ready to light the boiler any day now. There is a huge event at Promontory. They have 30,000 tickets which go on sale on April 1 st. At 10 AM. Information At spike150.org. It well sell out fast.
131 WOOHOO
Thanks for watching!
Great vid! Saw a spike at Sac's California State Railroad Museum many years ago. BTW isnt The Golden Spike misdated? May 8 '69 not May 10. Got my 1st railroad history book in '69 (for 100th anniversary)....Westward to Promontory: Building the Union Pacific across the plains and mountains : a pictorial documentary. Thx!!
Yes. The silver is correct because it was engraved later. Gold says May 8. Gold and silver says only May. As does the missing spike. The lost spike I think is also mis dated to keep it identical
@@ToyManTelevision Thx!
Toyman these are Thee Spikes the original spikes that built the Transcontinental Railroad. One of Gold, One of Silver, One of Brass, and the 4th spike the Mixed Spike is lost forever. Looters stole it after the San Francisco Earthquakes and we don't know who has it.
Almost. Two gold one smaller. That’s the missing one. Treasure hunters have looked high and low. Some said it went with general dodge. But most feel it went back to San Francisco and then lost after the fire. Would not have melted. But probably lost in the debris and dumped in the bay. The other 3 spikes are here.
Do you know where in Sacramento they will be showing these ? CSRM or the Crocker ?
I’m not sure. But I don’t think it will be at the railroad museum nothing on their website about it
One more comment. Do you know if there is a memorial anywhere that pays tribute to the many Chinese workers that contributed so much to the building of the Transcontinental railroad?
There is a project in the works due to be completed in fall 2019 that will honor the Chinese workers. It will be located at Gold Run, California.
Wait so the big boy will be in Salt Lake City on may 10? Can I get a reply
YES!! With 844.
TRAINMAN375 That is the plan. We don’t have a schedule for UP steam yet, but UP has been working for years for this, and everything is on pace to go.
Progress is on facebook page Union Pacific Steam Club.
@@ToyManTelevision I thought it would be in Ogden?
Both. No schedule as yet. Hope they also do an excursion trip with the Big Boy. But odds are arrive Salt Lake somewhere around 7th to 9th. spend the night. On to Ogden on the 10th where it will spend the day and perhaps night. Back to Salt Lake. excursion trip then? Or before? Then back to Rock Springs for the night and onto Cheyenne. Keep an eye out on Steam Club I will also post as soon as I know.
I made the real Golden Spike out of a real Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroad spike that is made of wrought iron same design as the hewes spike
Union Pacific has only said that the Big Boy will visit Ogden.
No schedule posted yet. I’m going by what they have done in the past. But they may skip salt lake but they never have yet. But checked a few hours ago and was told not decided yet.
the original line at Promontory Road ends at a grain elevator
the line at Promontory is rumored to be haunted
Where is that?
@@ToyManTelevision Promontory Road/ Hwy 83 & Mule Ranch Road
thats where the original line ends at
Where is THE location OF THE Utah railway
Helper to Ogden. Track rights. Their track is helper where their shops are to Provo. Does that help?
Technically pavlov doesn't ring a bell anymore but i do recall it or shall i say it is a discrimintive cue and that does technically ring a bell. lol i am liking the Marvin the martian t-shirts is odie on there also. lol
LOL!!!! Oh, heck! I have been a "Ding-a-Ling" most of my life! Dale makes me laugh! At least I had finished my soft drink from lunch!
@@karynfelix-the-Cat was there a clean up involved with finishing that soft drink?! (e.g., PFFT!!)
The caption says “ you can have my Illudium P-36 explosive space modulator when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
@@ToyManTelevision lol "you earthlings are so weird." and i didnt think i wanted that lol i do want to say though the interaction between you two is funny.
continuity destroyed, You got a Haircut...Was not sure I was watching the correct channel.
I went into a new place. Not sure they spoke English. No matter. I love it. Not what I had in mind but love it.
I found the real golden spike I found it on eBay