The day they drove the 'Golden Spike'
The ceremonial 17.6-karat gold final spike driven by Leland Stanford to join the rails of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States.
Four Special Spikes - Golden Spike National Historical Park (U.S. ...
Finally, a regular rail worker drove home the last spike, and the telegrapher, W.N. ... It has been speculated that the spike was given to ...
The day they drove the 'Golden Spike' - The Petaluma Argus-Courier
Skip Sommer describes the exciting year of 1869, when the big news was the transcontinental railroad, ringing the country together one mile of train at a time.
UP: Golden Spike and its Promontory Companions - Union Pacific
Of course, gold being a relatively soft, malleable metal, it was never practicable to "drive home" that spike. Neither the Hewes Golden Spike nor the silver ...
A Moment in Time - Golden Spike National Historical Park (U.S. ...
More than any other image of that day, however, the champagne photo ... Following the driving of the last spike, Union Pacific's engine No.
Transcontinental Railroad · Golden Spike Celebrations
Presented that day were two golden spikes, a silver spike, and a spike ... Fittingly, it was a railway worker who drove in the final spike, and with ...
Official photograph from the "Golden Spike" Ceremony, 1869
... that the Chinese workers who were present that day have been excluded. This absence encourages students to consider that all photographs reflect choices ...
... drove the golden spike, went on to found Stanford University. He could not imagine the contributions to transportation that his namesake ...
Golden Spike National Historic Site - Utah History to Go
The ceremony that day to mark the completion of the last set of ties and ... Reed took turns driving the last spike. For several weeks Promontory ...
The Golden Spike and the Transcontinental Railroad - YouTube
It was 1869, and two steam locomotives met at Promontory Summit, Utah. A golden spike was ceremoniously driven into the last railway tie.
Five mind-blowing facts — Golden Spike Ceremony - Trains Magazine
... that day. When the UP and CP ... Despite descriptions of mighty blows being struck to drive the gold spike, we know this is not true.
Driving the Last Spike - NPS Historical Handbook: Golden Spike
A golden spike presented by David Hewes, San Francisco construction magnate. Intrinsically worth $350, it was engraved with the names of the CP Directors.
Leland Stanford Drives the Golden Spike, 1869 - Landmark Events
They built forty miles of snow sheds to keep snow off the tracks and they set a one-day record of laying ten miles of track. ... The ceremony for the driving of ...
Myth and History: Driving the Golden Spike - Salt Lake Magazine
Golden spike he big moment had finally arrived. It was an auspiciously sunny day. The two locomotives—United Pacific's No. 119 facing west ...
Introduction - Golden Spike (1869): Topics in Chronicling America
In 1869, the Pacific and Union railroad tracks were joined by a golden spike, completing the Trancontinental Railroad.
12 facts Latter-day Saints should know about the golden spike for its ...
... driving of the golden spike, Rogers said. "We never traveled a day," Brigham Young told a Salt Lake Tabernacle audience in 1870. "And I can ...
The significance of Golden Spike Day | OUPblog
The driving of the golden spike, which joined the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads at Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10, carried a significance ...
Golden Spike National Historic Site | Utah, Map, History, & Facts
In 1942 the rails were taken up for war scrap and the golden spike drawn from where it had been driven 73 years before; the old railroad bed ...
Account of the "Golden Spike" Ceremony, Promontory Point, UT on ...
... drive the last spike. General G. M. Dodge, chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad then spoke: The Great Benton proposed that some day a granite statue ...
That event was the completion of the first transcontinental railway system with the Driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869. It was ...