Show 1 fc nv C fT Ici A 3 i j j r fK I fc J h m LT ii I rj Mat Mat- Matji ji y iJ- iJ i jas x u pH jk A P a E 1 T rii S pix 7 fM L jya m II I i STi- STi ly g A 1 f x L' L Le v I r 1 r 1 e C i- i fag rJ fL a i 1 H E 1 rI x 1 r a t I II I f 4 al y yet 1 1 r r f r I i r wit MP ru T ici i 1 I I I J J r asa asaI I I i Ii II i I I I Precisely 1085 miles west of Omaha and miles east of I Sacramento Union Pacific's engine No and Central I Jupiter touched snouts on the day of May 1869 MOMENTS BEFORE on the windswept ft high slopes of Promontory Summit Summit Sum Sum- Summit mit California's Leland Stanford Stanford Stanford Stan Stan- ford raised a s silver lver sledge attached to a copper wire swung his maul against a golden spike and closed a telegraph circuit that signalled signal signal- led to a waiting nation The last rail is laid The last spike is driven T The Pa Pacific fic Rail Railroad is 3 ed v AT NOONTIME on on l May blab 10 of 1969 this historic scene will be duplicated at the nations nation's nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's newest memorial the Golden Spike Nal National Historic Historic His His- tonic Site established by the National Park Service ninety miles northwest of Salt Lake Ci City ty By that date the Park Service Service ice Service with cooperation of the Golden Spike Centennial C Commission Commission Com Com- m- m mission state agencies and the American Association of oC Railroads will have completed completed completed com com- a million half-million dollar visitors center adjacent to iron rails upon the historic historic historic his his- roadbed A PAIR OF period piece steam locomotives closely resembling resembling re re- resembling re- re the stacked balloon-stacked jupiter and the coal burn ing No w will ll stand in the same relative positions oc oc- by the the- iron iron- horses horses- oft of fi 1869 Governors of a half-dozen half western slates states and other dignitaries dignitaries dignitaries dig- dig will journey journe fifty miles from Salt Lake City to Ogden n on a twelve-car twelve train drawn by Union Pacific engine one of oC the last steam locomotives in the na na- na- na tion ON MAY 10 1969 residents of oC tiny Brigham City and Corinne including many descendants descendants de de- descendants de- de of railroad builders builders builders build build- ers and Mormon 1 pioneers will reenact the driving of the Golden Spike utilizing the actual spike borrowed from Stanford University's museum for the occasion During the ensuing week the Union Pacific c will operate operate op op- op- op erate crate daily steam-powered steam Salt Ogden Lake-Ogden round trips bus service will be provided from r Ogden to fo the Golden Spike National Historic Site and a reenactment of the spike-driving spike will be bea a daily attraction 1 1 ter M J I- I T 1 l jf L r a 1 1 oaf I 1 r I r. r 1 1 r 7 Y c lra 1 I j t Y 1 s l' l I z I sc lil o r. r 1 r r s w w ww c. c y T- T t c. c tji t v yf f TJ J c i if rv oJ c f f or T jl j L a. A fr i r l. i t 7 j 4 r r c v 1 P Pd 5 i V VS I 1 yV it I w 1 7 o. o L W v. v I 1 e a. a t t r The Last Spike Is Laid 1 unable to reach Utah during the Centennial Centennial Centennial Cen Cen- tennial events will however find much of interest in the National Park Service Visitor Visitor Visitor tor Museum Center-Museum at the site of the joining of oC the nations nation's nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's transcontinental rails In addition to the scale full-scale near-duplicates near of the Jupiter and there ill be models of oC railroad equipment maps and photos illustrating the 90 million Union Pacific construction construction construction tion job carried out by Civil war veterans and Irish immigrants immigrants immigrants im im- migrants and of oJ the difficult ra railroad construction job across the Sierras in California chiefly carried out by Chinese Chines track gangs under a 75 million mil mil- million mil li lion n Central Pacific contract contra contractors t. t TODA TODAY'S YS Y'S sightseers sightseers' will will follow interstate 80 to Salt Lake City or 01 Ogden and andI I 1 1 Interstate 15 north to Brigham Brigham Brigham Brig- Brig ham City rather than the theiron theiron theiron iron rails The first transcontinental tracks were replaced by the Lucin Cutoff over the Great Salt Lake and were then pulled up as badly needed scrap metal just prior prim to world war II Utah 83 leaves 15 1 near Brigham providing a well-paved well mile 28 link di directly directly directly di- di to Promontory VISITORS TO the Golden Spike Historical Site can make enjoyable side trips to forest service campgrounds and resorts resorts resorts re re- re- re sorts in the nearby Wasatch National Forest to beaches on the Great Salt Lake and to to the Bear River Migratory Bird Bird Refuge one of the nations nation na na- tion tion's s 's largest waterfowl sanc sanc- tu ries J. J gO i. i f r. r kr I r t t I Tt 1 1 1 I k 3 f 4 n. n f fi i C w 1 1 F x I 1 Yr r J I i. i J j I 4 31 I 1 Z v 1 5 S d cf r Ii i r V. V 1 I 1 bj g 1 L. L Iii L rd vw j r j i iCI Sf rS tiA A l f 1 I rf VI V- V Vr r TrL IB Ji Promontory 1 t ry lis I-lis History Indian 11 Tall Trouble Gre Gi t it in History The Tl c date at js is s 's 1 May y 10 1869 The time is 1241 pm p.m. The place is Pr montory Utah r MOMENTS IO I 1 1 S rl S BEFORE C C. R. R Savage took this famed photograph photograph photograph photo photo- graph Leland Stanford had ta tapped ped d' d G Golden Sf Spike ike into at 1 I laurel tie thereby marking completion of the nations nation's first transcontinental railroad As the locomotives Io touched cowcatchers executives shook hands arid and workers exchanged champagne bottles Behind Union Pacific's No right had pushed 1085 miles of oC iron ra rail l across Indian Indian Indian In In- dian country west from Omaha BEHIND BElliNO CENTRAL Pacific's Jupiter were miles of rail laid through the deep snows of the Sierras and the blazing heat of the Nevada desert The event will vill be reenacted on May 10 1969 during the theN National N i G l I Centennial Cen Cen Cen- tennial AT PROMONTORY PRO now supervised by the National Park Service a museum has been built and style old-style track replaced Replicas of oC No j jand Jand and Jupiter will be on the i scene while one of oC the nations nation's na- na nat t t lions lion's few operating steam t t locomotives will haul passengers t from Crom Salt Lake City to nearby nearby nearby near- near by Ogden for observances The country through which the Union Pacific built its part of oC the Pacific Railway ran through the hunting grounds of the Pawnee Sioux Crows Cheyenne Bannock Snake and Shosho Indians ans some of the m mod warlike tr tribes tribes' be of the esl s 1 c bi J Iced bil WORK CREWS were exposed ex es- es posed to frequent Indian attacks attacks at at- tacks particularly in 1865 I IOne One of the most valuable i forces in protecting the railroaders railroaders railroaders rail rail- i that year was a battalion batalion bat- bat alion of Pawnee Indians mus- mus ered into the U. U S. S service for Cor hat that very purpose The Pawnees Paw- Paw t nees were bitter enemies of oC the Sioux and i i f t itt 4 1 r i I 7 j y ya a 1 a I y 1 r I MW M Asti I 1 0 I yf VT l r Iv Z v I SES 1 i i iT Yr T r tj nt ti 1 t tt t yr 1 a tJ 1 t z S as |