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National Parks Traveler Podcast | Golden Spike National Historical Park

National Parks Traveler Podcast | Golden Spike National Historical Park

FromNational Parks Traveler Podcast


National Parks Traveler Podcast | Golden Spike National Historical Park

FromNational Parks Traveler Podcast

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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Jan 7, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

As a young boy growing up in New Jersey, a year-end holiday treat was setting up our model railroad. It gave me and my two brothers hours of fun and an opportunity to learn a little about the steam age of railroads. Our first railroad featured Lionel O gauge locomotives and cars.  Later we moved into HO gauge trains, and many years later I had an N gauge layout. That boyhood love of model railroads drove me to visit Golden Spike National Historical Park in northern Utah not far from the Great Salt Lake. That’s where, on May 10th, 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad was completed when the Jupiter and No. 119 steam locomotives of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads met head-on. To learn more about those two locomotives, I headed north to Promontory Summit and caught up with Ranger Cole Chisam, who is the engineer who drives the two locomotives at the park. I’ll be back in a minute with Cole.
Released:
Jan 7, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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