C-SPAN Cities Tour - Ogden: Promontory Summit & the Transcontinental Railroad

Visit the site where the Golden Spike was struck completing construction on the Transcontinental Railroad. Construction of the Central Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad met at Promontory Summit, about an hour outside of Ogden on May 10, 1869. The railroad network made traveling across the country easier and greatly improved the process of transporting freight. In the 20th century, Ogden's logo read, "You can't get anywhere without coming to Ogden." Park Ranger David Kilton shows us the exact spot where the two rail lines met and talks about the impact.

[@pravoslavn]

Excellent program, excellent video ! Congratulations to the young Park Ranger for a well-spoken presentation !

[@T0SANK]

Very good

[@darrellborland119]

Been there several times. Also recently went to Piedmont, WY, scene of Thomas Durant's "detainment" for back-pay owed. Thanks.

[@bkmoulton]

This is all excellent. Amazing that they bypassed each other for money...certainly not a humanly reasonable thing to do!

[@geomodelrailroader]

150 years this is where it all began. Golden Spike National Park commemorates the place where 150 years ago UP completed its line across our great nation.

[@BrassLock]

An interesting summary with nice pictorial content. Very sad the sound engineer couldn't do his job and turn the volume contol up. He had just *ONE JOB!* and blew it.
"Lucky Larry", his off-sider *Captured the Closed Captions,* did a great job, and saved the day.

[@magnusholmberg9202]

Three beings still need to get connected.

[@xXx_MLKCHCLTE_xXx]

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[@colbypoulson2878]

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