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Summit County invites the public to a reception on Tuesday that will dedicate public art, showcase South Summit School District students and honor Chinese laborers…
Read MoreOn today’s program, the Chairman of the Spike 150 Commission Doug Foxley has details about the huge celebration commemorating the 150th anniversary of the completion…
Read MoreIn our Feb. 27th issue, we wrote about the innovative collaboration, Train Tracts. And after riding the rails for a month, the results of the traveling literary…
Read MoreUnion Pacific Railroad will host a celebration May 9 in Ogden, Utah, to mark the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad's completion.
Read MoreA century before Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, America was abuzz with news of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, an equally…
Read MoreUnion Pacific will host a celebration marking the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad's completion Thursday, May 9, at 10:30 a.m. MDT. The ceremony will…
Read MoreA new traveling exhibition in recognition of the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad has arrived in Utah.
Read MoreGenerations of Ogdenites have grown up absorbing 25th Street’s legends of corruption, menace, and depravity.
Read MoreThis is the “Year of the Train” and all of Utah is buzzing with excitement about the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.…
Read More150 years ago, in May of 1869, the Union Pacific Railroad coming from the east and the Central Pacific Railroad coming from the west, joined…
Read MoreFrom 1865 to 1869, as many as 20,000 Chinese laborers worked on the Central Pacific Railroad, which ran from Sacramento to Promontory Summit, Utah, where…
Read MoreWhile May 10 will mark 150 years since the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads joined at Promontory Summit in Box Elder County to complete…
Read MoreThere are a lot of rumors about the construction of the transcontinental railroad: A mass grave of Chinese-workers who died from cholera in the Brigham…
Read MoreThe first transcontinental railroad’s completion in Utah 150 years ago was a “watershed moment in history,” according to Brigham Young University Museum of Art curator Ashlee Whitaker.
Read MoreResearchers from Stanford University have found much deeper connections between Chinese immigrants in the 19th century with the United States, a Stanford newsletter said Tuesday.
Read MoreThe Utah Symphony and Utah Opera are set to reveal a number of projects aimed at celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike. The Golden…
Read MorePaisley Rekdal is Utah Poet Laureate and a professor of English at the University of Utah. Her book Nightingale comes our May 7, and is available for pre-order.…
Read MoreUtah is about to throw a big celebration for the 150th anniversary of the May 10, 1869, completion of the transcontinental railroad. Many realize it…
Read MoreAhead of the 150th anniversary of the driving of the golden spike, the Bureau of Land Management is offering two free automobile tours along the…
Read MoreThis weekend you can celebrate that heritage at the Golden Spike 150th Anniversary Model Train Show at University Place.
Read MoreMay 10 marks 150 years since Utah became the connecting point for the first transcontinental railroad, which revolutionized transportation in the American West.
Read MoreUtah Symphony and Utah Opera (USUO) unveil a series of creative projects to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike, the ceremonial final spike…
Read MoreThe Golden Spike was driven 150 years ago at Promontory Point. This historic junction of the railroads not only impacted the nation but had major…
Read MoreThere is a real transportation dichotomy in the Box Elder County desert west of Brigham City. The Transcontinental Railroad steam locomotives motored along at a top…
Read MoreThe work of 35 artists reflected the accomplishments, tragedies and legacy of the Transcontinental Railroad with an art exhibit that went up on display in…
Read MoreThe Golden Spike National Historical Site changed status and became a Historical Park on March 12, when President Donald Trump signed the measure.
Read More“The Spike at 150: Myths and Realities” goes on display Saturday, March 23, and continues through June 15 at the Brigham City Museum of Art &…
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