Our last stop in Utah was the Golden Spike National Historic Site located at
Promontory Summit. This is the site where the golden spike ceremony took place connecting the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroads to complete the transcontinental railroad.
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| Marker at the site where the Central Pacific & Union Pacific transcontinental railroads were linked |
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golden spike was removed immediately after the ceremony and replaced with a standard iron spike. The golden spike is now located back at Stanford's museum. Leland Stanford was head of Central Pacific Railroad at the time, and his brother-in-law, David Hewes, donated it to Stanford University in 1898.
We arrived just in time to see the two steam engine replicas put on their last show for the day before they are parked for the night in the Engine House.
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| Jupiter wood burning steam engine |
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| Betty & Joe next to the Union Pacific 119 coat burning steam engine |
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