Golden Spike National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park located at Promontory Summit, north of the Great Salt Lake in east-central Box Elder County, Utah, United States. The
Replicas of the Central Pacific Jupiter and Union Pacific No. 119 locomotives at the Golden Spike National Historical Park
Transcontinental Railroad Memorial - memorializes workers who lost their lives building the nation's first transcontinental railroad
Park sign (photographed in 2018)
28,000 visitors attended the centennial celebration (1969)
Union Pacific No. 119
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Union Pacific 119 is a 4-4-0 "American" type steam locomotive made famous for meeting the Central Pacific Railroad's Jupiter at Promontory Summit, Utah, during the Golden Spike ceremony commemorating
Golden Spike National Historical Park
…Museum. Replacing the engines at Promontory were the Virginia and Truckee locomotives nos. 22, Inyo, and 18, Dayton redecorated as the Jupiter and No. 119, respectively. These engines remained at the site until 1978, when they were sent to the state of Nevada, which had purchased them in 1974, to be a…
No. 119 replica at Golden Spike National Historical Park
The Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad's locomotive no. 35 dressed up as a stand-in for Union Pacific 119 in a Golden Spike reenactment at the 1949 Chicago Railroad Fair
The Omaha Zoo Railroad's replica of no. 119