A year ago thousands of people gathered in Promontory where the final spikes were hammered into the ground 150 years ago to mark the finish of…
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Read MoreThe first Transcontinental Railroad, completed in 1869, joined two railroads to connect the east and west coasts of the United States for the first time.…
Read MoreToday — at the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike Ceremony marking the completion of the transcontinental railroad — is a day to commemorate the…
Read MoreRelive the completion of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Summit at the Spike 150 celebration at the Golden Spike National Historical Park on May 10,…
Read MoreWith replicas of historic steam locomotives whistling across north Utah on Friday, thousands of people came here to celebrate the 150th birthday of the first…
Read MoreIrish immigrants have been remembered at an event in the US state of Utah celebrating the 150th anniversary of the 'Golden Spike', the moment when the First Transcontinental…
Read More“Dot, Dot, Dot. Done!” That message, sent 150 years ago Friday by telegrapher W.N. Shilling from Promontory Summit, Utah, set off celebrations as the driving…
Read MoreClassrooms made a field trip out of it, train buffs traveled from afar and a contingent of Chinese Americans from California came to pay their…
Read MoreMusic, bells and cannon fire rang out Friday at a remote spot in the Utah desert where the final spikes of the Transcontinental Railroad were…
Read MoreConnie 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.…
Read MoreStudents in Kayse Fernandes’s fourth-grade class used to ignore the railroad tracks that run next to the freeway and along the outskirts of their city.…
Read MoreUnion Pacific’s rails don’t go up to Promontory anymore, which is why you get the early celebration in Ogden. Organizers say the trains meeting today…
Read MoreOne hundred and fifty years after the transcontinental railroad completion, Gov. Gary Herbert signed a bill that made a commemorative 10-ounce copper spike Utah’s official…
Read MoreWhen Richard Chang got a call from his agent offering him a voiceover role in Bill Moyers’ docu-series “Becoming American: The Chinese Experience,” he didn’t…
Read MoreCompleting the transcontinental railroad 150 years ago at Promontory Summit forever changed Utah and the nation — driving radical transformation in everything from the economy…
Read MoreExperience the splendor of Aaron Copland's American masterpieces-the suite from the ballet "Billy the Kid" and Pulitzer Prize-winning "Appalachian Spring" on May 17 at 7:30 PM…
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