Golden Spike National Historic Site

Golden Spike National Historic Site August 25th 2008. The Golden Spike National Historic Site is a U.S. National Historic Site located at Promontory Summit, north of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

It commemorates the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad where the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad met on May 10, 1869. The final joining of the rails spanning the continent was signified by the driving of a Golden spike.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Golden
• Spike
• National
• Historic
• Site
• Jupiter
• No.119
• Utah
• Railway
• Union
• Pacific
• Promontory
• Summit
• steam
• locomotives
• Central
• #60
• 4-4-0
• wood
• burning

[Dambo96]

they look fake to me ,like a small car chaiss is under there, the front wheels of 119 don't apeer to be on the track or going around

[c2100]

@Dambo96 I guess we have to read the book. Looked real enough to me

[JohnMGilbert]

They were built by O'Connor Enginering Labs in Costa Mesa, CA. I talked with Chadwell O'Connor about building replicas of the General and Texas, the engines of The Great Locomotive Chase but sadly, Georgia has NO interest in its railroading past.

[c2100]

@JohnMGilbert Thanks for the insight

[Dinosorable]

They sure did a great job, building these replicas.

[c2100]

@Dinosorable An amazing sight

[WhyAyeMann]

holy crap, those engines are beautiful.

[redifreddy14]

are these engines both operational ...and are they to scale???

[dieselscout]

These are replicas, built in the '70s. They are 1:1 full scale replicas of the originals.

A relative was involved in building these, and wrote a book about the process.

[speedstick77]

They are magnificent. Can hardly believe what I'm seeing. Thank you!

[yerkees9891]

@yerkees9891 Just picture it, Jupiter, #119, Leviathan, and William Mason all in one place

[yerkees9891]

It's a shame these two never leave the park. They'd be huge hits at any rail event they'd show up at

[iliketrains2]

they were scrapped DX i think they must be replicas

[Fireheart528]

@er10b Ok, so if running these two wouldn't be too much trouble, what about an oil-burning 4-6-0/4-4-0 with 80 inch drivers? I was thinking of Southern Pacific E-11 4-4-0 # 1355.