angier-0908-golden_spike_nhs-13490.jpg
Golden Spike National Historic Site, Promontory, Utah...May 10, 1869, the U.S. was united from coast to coast with the placement of the Golden Spike completing the worlds' first trans-contenental railroad and the uniting of the Pacific and Atlantic coasts...This is the spot decided by President U.S. Grant to join the Pacific's Central Pacific railroad with the Union Pacific railroad and complete the project...Teenage boy docent in the cab of the CP 119
- Copyright
- ©2009 Larry Angier/Image West Photography.209.223.2881/209.765.3104.www.angier-fox.com
- Image Size
- 2848x4288 / 3.7MB
- Keywords
-
railroad, historic, vintage, steam, meeting, rural, great basin, country, desert, commemoration, engineering, uniting, completion, rr, trains, steam trains, national park, teen, boy, volunteer, docent, cap, locomotive
- Contained in galleries
- Historic American Railroads