Jupiter, at Promontory, Utah

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  summicron1

• Feb 12, 2018

Great shot, Reinhold. Do you have others? Union Station archive in Ogden is interested.

charlie trentelman
ogden, utah

 

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  David Lyga

• Feb 13, 2018

Nice and clean; an appropriate image to place upon a promontory, for all ships to see. - David Lyga

 

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  Trail Images

• Feb 13, 2018

Wonderful take on this historical location and old steam unit.

 

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  warden

• Feb 13, 2018

What a wonderful photograph. The geometry is great!

 

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  summicron1

• Feb 13, 2018

@David Lyga actually, david, if you don't know -- this is a replica of one of the two engines at the driving of the golden spike, completing the Transcontinental Railroad on may 10, 1869. It is at the Golden Spike National Historic Site, located 50 miles north and west of Ogden adjacent to the town of Promontory.

 

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  David Lyga

• Feb 14, 2018

I remember hearing about that 'meeting' back in 1960 when I was in Fourth Grade. I always wondered what would have happened if they had been off, laterally, by a foot?!?!? - David Lyga

 

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  summicron1

• Feb 14, 2018

@David Lyga it's funnier than that, Dave -- the competing teams were getting paid by the mile, so they quite literally didn't want to meet. The SP crews built rail bed way past Promontory, all the way into Ogden and almost to Weber Canyon. The UP was on its way west.

The federal government had to step in and tell them that, yes, they would meet up, and Promontory was the place. Next year is the 150th anniversary, there will be a big party.

 

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  David Lyga

• Feb 14, 2018

Very funny and very human-like. Greed hath no competition. - David Lyga