May 13, 2019 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Deseret News, May 10, 2019) PROMONTORY SUMMIT, Utah — Cheers went up and the crowd whistled loudly as Jupiter and No. 119 met Friday at Promontory Summit to kick off the 150th anniversary of the wedding of the rails back on May 10, 1869. Full story: Deseret...
May 13, 2019 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Associated Press/CBS, May 11, 2019) PROMONTORY, Utah — Music, bells and cannon fire rang out Friday at a remote spot in the Utah desert where the final spikes of the Transcontinental Railroad were hammered 150 years ago, uniting a nation long separated by...
May 10, 2019 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Sierra Sun, May 9, 2019) TRUCKEE, Calif. — Sierra snows are a continuing challenge to railroad transportation through our high mountains. The first surveyors of the transcontinental railroad thought the snows could be handled with the equipment of the day....
May 10, 2019 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Smithsonian Magazine, May 9, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — After many years of workers laying mile after mile of track, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads met on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah, merging into one impossibly long pathway...
May 10, 2019 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Standard-Examiner, May 9, 2019) OGDEN, Utah — Unity, economics — and of course history — were the main themes that emerged during the first day of celebrations related to the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad. Full story:...
May 10, 2019 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Reuters, May 9, 2019) PROMONTORY, Utah — Connie Young Yu says that when her parents joined a delegation of fellow Chinese-Americans attending a 1969 event commemorating the centennial of the first U.S. Transcontinental Railroad, they were snubbed, upstaged by...
May 10, 2019 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Union Pacific press release, May 9, 2019) OGDEN, Utah — Union Pacific hosted a celebration marking the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad’s completion. The ceremony was held today at Ogden Union Station, a day ahead of Utah’s...
May 10, 2019 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Associated Press, May 9, 2019) WASHINGTON, D.C. — The May 10, 1869, completion of the Transcontinental Railroad was a pivotal moment in the United States, ushering in a period of progress and expansion nationwide. Full story: Salt Lake...
May 9, 2019 | Headlines, Historic/Steam
(Source: Associated Press, May 9, 2019) OGDEN, Utah — Michael Kwan can’t help but think about what life was like on a daily basis for his great-great-grandfather in the 1860s, working 12-hour days in California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range on the Transcontinental...
May 8, 2019 | Headlines, Historic/Steam, UP
(Source: Atlas Obscura, May 7, 2019) Thousands of train fans and history buffs are making a pilgrimage this week to Wyoming and Utah, to see the world’s largest steam locomotive run for the first time in nearly six decades. On May 1, the Union Pacific completed an...
