Complete Guide to Golden Spike National Historical Park in Utah including things to do, history, camping and lodging nea ...

Little puffs of smoke drifted skyward from the stack of the brightly painted Jupiter steam locomotive, its red, blue and gold trim gleaming beneath the desert sun. The engineer leaned out of the cab, ...

Golden Spike State Monument is coming to Brigham City in 2026 to honor the workers who built the transcontinental railroad.

Near the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge in Brigham City, just off the freeway, there’s a stretch of land that looks like ...

Babe White driving the first spike at Ship Creek. (Library of Congress photo) On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven at Promontory Summit, Utah, to mark the completion of the first ...

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 ...

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 43-foot-long replica of the original 5 5/8-inch golden spike, marking the completion of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1869, recently arrived at the Utah State Capitol ...

That the Catskill Golden Spike of 1873 was put in place four years after Leland Stanford drove in the far more famous predecessor uniting the Union Pacific and Central Specific Railroads at ...

A 43-foot-tall Golden Spike arrived to Utah and honors tens of thousands of workers who built the transcontinental railroad.