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Viewing Album:  Golden Spike National Historic Park
 
By:Bob Krug
Dates:9/25/2022 - 9/25/2022
Album Info:This is one of those railfan "holy pilgrimages" foamers should try to see at least once in their line. I had a terrific visit - I learned new facts from the rangers, and seeing the lay of the land brought a lot of the story into better perspective for me
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Jupiter starts its runby for park visitors
Title:  Jupiter starts its runby for park visitors
Description:  That's wood smoke coming from the funnel stack. The Central Pacific ordered wood burning locomotives for their portion of the transcontinental railroad because California didn't have any coal mines. Jupiter was built in Schenectady, NY and shipped around the Horn of South American and back uo the Pacific coast to San Francisco. Ditto for the rail that the Central Pacific used in constructing the Sacremento - to - Promontory Summit. It came to California by steamship through Magellan's Strait.
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:20:52 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CPRR 60(4-4-0)
Views:  126   Comments: 1
CPRR 60 - Jupiter
Title:  CPRR 60 - Jupiter
Description:  What a beauty!
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:29:40 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Steam
Locomotives:  CPRR 60(4-4-0)
Views:  141   Comments: 1
Jupiter and UP 119 pose with cow catchers nearly touching at the spot where the last spike was driven in America's first transcontinental railroad
Title:  Jupiter and UP 119 pose with cow catchers nearly touching at the spot where the last spike was driven in America's first transcontinental railroad
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:34:13 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Steam
Locomotives:  CPRR 60(4-4-0) UP 119(4-4-0)
Views:  136   Comments: 1
UP 119 in a run-by for park visitors
Title:  UP 119 in a run-by for park visitors
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:35:54 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 119(4-4-0)
Views:  138   Comments: 1
UP 119 on display at Promontory Summit, UT
Title:  UP 119 on display at Promontory Summit, UT
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:37:52 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Steam
Locomotives:  UP 119(4-4-0)
Views:  119   Comments: 0
UP 119 in a run-by for park visitors
Title:  UP 119 in a run-by for park visitors
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:38:16 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 119(4-4-0)
Views:  119   Comments: 1
UP 119 in a run-by for park visitors
Title:  UP 119 in a run-by for park visitors
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:48:01 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 119(4-4-0)
Views:  127   Comments: 2
UP 119 in a run-by for park visitors
Title:  UP 119 in a run-by for park visitors
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:48:47 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 119(4-4-0)
Views:  124   Comments: 1
CPRR 60 - Jupiter backs into position for the day's run-bys and poses with its counterpart locomotive UP 119
Title:  CPRR 60 - Jupiter backs into position for the day's run-bys and poses with its counterpart locomotive UP 119
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:15:48 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  94   Comments: 1
UP 119 and Jupiter face off at the site of the golden spike ceremony
Title:  UP 119 and Jupiter face off at the site of the golden spike ceremony
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:20:02 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Steam
Locomotives:  UP 119(4-4-0) CPRR 60(4-4-0)
Views:  112   Comments: 1
Face to Face
Title:  Face to Face
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:20:24 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Steam
Locomotives:  CPRR 60(4-4-0) UP 119(4-4-0)
Views:  100   Comments: 0
CPRR 60 - Jupiter doing a run-by for park visitors
Title:  CPRR 60 - Jupiter doing a run-by for park visitors
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:21:46 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CPRR 60(4-4-0)
Views:  109   Comments: 2
CPRR 60 - Jupiter doing a run-by for park visitors
Title:  CPRR 60 - Jupiter doing a run-by for park visitors
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:30:05 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CPRR 60(4-4-0)
Views:  94   Comments: 1
CPRR 60 - Jupiter doing a run-by for park visitors
Title:  CPRR 60 - Jupiter doing a run-by for park visitors
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:30:22 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  CPRR 60(4-4-0)
Views:  91   Comments: 0
Perhaps the most aesthetically beautiful steam locomotive tender in all of North America
Title:  Perhaps the most aesthetically beautiful steam locomotive tender in all of North America
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:30:52 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Steam
Locomotives:  CPRR 60(4-4-0)
Views:  92   Comments: 1
UP 119 in a run-by for park visitors
Title:  UP 119 in a run-by for park visitors
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:36:26 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 119(4-4-0)
Views:  94   Comments: 1
UP 119 in a run-by for park visitors
Title:  UP 119 in a run-by for park visitors
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:36:55 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Steam,Action
Locomotives:  UP 119(4-4-0)
Views:  93   Comments: 1
UP 119 on display at Promontory Summit, UT
Title:  UP 119 on display at Promontory Summit, UT
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:37:21 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Steam
Locomotives:  UP 119(4-4-0)
Views:  98   Comments: 0
Golden Spike National Historic Site has set up a one-way drive visitors can do in their cars along the original Union Pacific ROW.
Title:  Golden Spike National Historic Site has set up a one-way drive visitors can do in their cars along the original Union Pacific ROW.
Description:  View to the right side of the photo shows the salt / mud flats of the Great Salt lake, which in 2022 is greatly receded from previous years pool elevations. The Wasatch Front looms on the horizon in this view looking East. Down the hill you can see the grading work done by the Central Pacific track gangs during the period of time when both railroads had track crews grading roadbed, often side-by-side like this because they received payment from Uncle Sam for every mile that was graded. That was eventually settled by a US government decree that the two competing railroad companies would join at the height of land in the crossing of the Promontory Range: Promontory Summit, where the golden spike ceremony was held on May 10, 1869. From the point where the golden spike was driven the track heads downgrade in both directions
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:49:20 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Scenic,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  130   Comments: 0
Nice looking behind! UP 119's attractively painted tender
Title:  Nice looking behind! UP 119's attractively painted tender
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/25/2022  Upload Date: 9/26/2022 11:35:12 PM
Location:  Promontory Summit, UT
Author:  Bob Krug
Categories:  Roster,Scenic,Steam
Locomotives:  UP 119(4-4-0) CPRR 60(4-4-0)
Views:  143   Comments: 1

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