For more than 70 years, crowds have gathered at what is now Golden Spike National Historical Park to celebrate the joining of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads at Promontory Summit near ...

OGDEN — Next week will be big for Union Station. May 3 will mark the Golden Spike Anniversary Whistle Stop Tour from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Hope Eggett, curator for the Museums at Union Station, told the ...

PROMONTORY, Utah — Friday is the 155th anniversary of the day the world changed with the joining of East and West right here in Utah. The transcontinental railroad was finished on May 10, 1869, a date ...

Friday, May 10, 2024 is Train Day at This is the Place Heritage Park. It's the anniversary of the joining of the first Transcontinental Railroad across the United States and the driving of the Golden ...

The Golden Spike Monument, a sculpture by artist Douwe Blumberg, is dispalyed in front of Union Station on Friday, May 3, 2024. The 43-foot, gold leaf-covered monument was commissioned to honor the ...

Brigham City • When two railroads met at northern Utah’s Promontory Summit in 1869, the country was joined from coast to coast for the first time — a connection sealed by a final spike, commonly known ...

The Golden Spike Monument is here in Ogden and it comes at the perfect time. This year marks a lot of big anniversaries. The 155th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad, the ...

Union Pacific staff members last year began visiting communities along the First Transcontinental Railroad across the U.S., which has connected the Central Pacific and U.P. railroads since 1869. “We ...