A century later the Milwaukee's distinctive orange locomotives and overhead electric ... the spot where the Northern Pacific drove its golden spike in September 1883. But the point where George ...

In partnership with Friends of No. 9, the California State Railroad Museum will display the beautifully restored No. 9 steam ...

On Wednesday, Mount and other members of the Railroad Club presided over a “golden spike” ceremony to unveil the project and send the locomotive on an inaugural trip around the track.

“There would have been a locomotive being built in front of each one of these double doors.” One wall features a large black-and-white photo of the Golden Spike Ceremony in 1869 when the first ...

It also honors steam locomotive No. 119, one of the two engines participating in the Golden Spike ceremony at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869. The locomotive will be unveiled this spring. “President ...

The final locomotive whistles of the year rang out at Golden Spike National Historical Park on Monday, Dec. 30. The park celebrated the winter break and a successful year with its annual Winter Steam ...

Inside the engine house I caught up with Cole Chisam, the park ranger who not only is the engineer who drives the two steam locomotives housed at Golden Spike but is a resident railroad historian.

And it absolutely is the reason I do what I do, because I can stand in front of a locomotive or I can stand in front of a golden spike, I can stand in front of some object of the past and it does ...

On May 10, 1869, a jubilant ceremony marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States, connecting the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento and the Union Pacific ...

The locomotive weighs in at 600 tons ... The year marked the centennial of the Golden Spike drive from May 1859, when the East and West coasts of the United States of America were joined by ...