19 February 2009

The Golden Spike

Utah is home to The Golden Spike, which was the last, ceremonial spike driven to celebrate the completion of the First Transcontinental railroad.  The Union Pacific railroad and the Central Pacific railroads connected here in 1869, making it possible to travel (almost) all the way accross the country by rail.

When the states each designed a new quarter, Utah's design featured the golden spike along with the words "Crossroads of the West"

We have LOTS of train tracks in Utah! We drive over them every single day, several times, no matter where we are going.  When I was a kid, we thought it was good luck to lift up your feet and touch something metal in the car (like a screw) when we drove over the tracks. It seemed like we were always holding our feet up!

We didn't take Pooh Bear to Promontory Point (where the Golden Spike actually is) to see the railroad, but we showed him lots of tracks around here!

Posted by Mandy at Thursday, February 19, 2009
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Kathy_in_Colorado,  February 24, 2009 at 12:42 PM  

thanks for this info - Dawn - trying to keep up while remodeling!

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