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•Igpo 1986-491-414/20064 Reprint 1979 Would Be at Promontory Summit BUILDING THE RAILROAD TO PROMONTORY SUMMIT DRIVING THE GOLDEN SPIKE PROMONTORY AFTER MAY 10 The Central Pacific met its greatest challenge at the outset—the In November 1868—before the decision was made in Washington— The companies chose May 8 as the date for joining the rails, but The new tent city of Promontory lived a short but evil life after towering Sierra Nevada, which presented enormous engineering it became clear to Central engineers that they could not beat the UP delays set it back 2 days. On May 9, Union Pacific laid track to May 10. Even after the terminus moved to Ogden in early 1870, the obstacles and strangling winter snows. Deep fills, rock cuts, high to Ogden, and thus capture the Great Basin trade. CP, therefore, within one length of the Central Pacific, thus setting the scene for the CP maintained a roundhouse and engines at Promontory to help trestles, snaking grades, and 15 tunnels through 6,213 feet of solid settled on the strategem of blocking UP progress west of Ogden. If ceremonies the following day. heavily loaded trains up the east slope. granite bloodied the CP crews. To protect the track from snowslides, successful, this would salvage at least part of the Great Basin trade they built 37 miles of wooden snowsheds and galleries. During for CP. Driven by this goal, CP went to work with a vengeance be­ On the morning of May 10, the UP delegation arrived. It was headed In 1903, Southern Pacific, which had absorbed Central Pacific, began severe weather they hauled materials by sled and wagon over the tween Monument Point, on the northern end of Great Salt Lake, by Dr. Thomas Durant, financial genius and vice-president of the the Lucin Cutoff across Great Salt Lake to shorten the line. When it crest to the east slope so that work could continue. Blasting of the and Ogden. By the end of 1868 they had two-thirds of the grade road. The CP delegation, headed by its president, Leland Stanford, was completed in 1904, almost all rail traffic used it, with only 1,659-foot Summit Tunnel stopped end-of-track 94 miles from completed except for the eastern face of the Promontory Mountains. was already there, having arrived 3 days earlier. occasional traffic being routed through Promontory. Finally, in 1942, Sacramento from November 1866 until August 1867. Then the Southern Pacific pulled up the rails and contributed them as scrap tempo of construction increased. By mid-1868, end-of-track was Union Pacific didn't begin grading west of Ceremonies began at noon when Central to the war effort. All that now remains of those flamboyant and lusty nearly 200 miles from Sacramento, with more favorable terrain for Ogden until February 1869. But by late Pacific's Jupiter and Union Pacific's 119 days at Promontory Summit are eroding grades and cuts in the rapid construction ahead in Nevada and Utah. March their grade was nearly completed to steamed slowly up to the gap in the tracks. desolate Promontory Mountains of northern Utah. the eastern base of the Promontory Moun­ Irish and Chinese laborers then put the Union Pacific encountered little difficult terrain until it reached tains. Here work on both grades slowed. final rails in place. James Strobridge ABOUT YOUR VISIT central Wyoming and Utah. Though the terrain was easy, UP had Ascent of the Promontory required fills, and Samuel Reed, construction superin­ Golden Spike National Historic Site is 32 miles west of Brigham a problem not experienced by CP—Indians. The Sioux and Chey- trestles, and deep cuts through solid lime­ tendents for the CP and UP, slid a polished City. To reach the site, drive westward on Utah 83 to Promontory laurel tie, predrilled to receive four ennes knew that the railroad would end their way of life. They had stone. To make the ascent, each company Junction; turn left and go 2 miles to the next junction; then turn ceremonial spikes, under the rails at 12:20. the will and power to resist, so the Army and the railroad workers built 10 miles of track to cover an airline right and go 5 miles. (some of them Civil War veterans) had to fight many skirmishes as distance of 5. the rails pushed westward. By mid-1868, UP had completed about After opening remarks and a prayer, Dr. A visitor center offers exhibits, information services, and an audio­ 700 miles of track. The construction features attracting the Durant, standing at the west rail, received visual program. About 1.7 miles of track have been relaid on the greatest interest on the Promontory were two gold spikes from California and original roadbed where the rails were joined, and operating steam THE GREAT RAILROAD RACE CP's Big Fill and UP's Big Trestle. Work dropped them into the tie. Next, Stanford, locomotives on site help recreate the emotion and excitement of By mid-1868 the great railroad race was in full swing. The intent of on the Big Fill began in February 1869. at the east rail, placed a silver spike from May 10, 1869. You will find motels, restaurants, and camping in Congress was that the two companies were to build until they met. The fill—170 feet deep and 500 feet long Nevada and a spike of an alloy of iron, Brigham City or Tremonton. This junction point was never spelled out in the laws. Both roads —required about 10,000 yards of dirt and gold, and silver from Arizona into their wanted to build as much as they could. The prizes were subsidy the labor of hundreds of men and draft holes. Then these spikes were symbolically ADMINISTRATION bonds, land grants, and the trade of the Great Basin. An important animals for nearly 2 months. The Big "driven" with a silver-plated sledge. but intangible prize was the prestige to be gained by the company Trestle excited even more attention than the Golden Spike National Historic Site is administered by the National that built the greater length of track. Big Fill. UP, in the interest of speed, elected Finally came the actual driving of the last Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. A superintendent, to build a trestle across the deep gorge. spike—an ordinary spike into an ordinary whose address is P.O. Box 394 Brigham City, UT 84302, is in charge. Two provisions of the acts of 1864 and 1866 helped fan the flames of UP planned later to replace the trestle with tie with an ordinary sledge. For the Authorized by Congress in July 1965, the site contains 2,203 acres, competition. One permitted the companies to grade 300 miles beyond a fill. Construction began in early April. ceremony the sledge was wired and con­ including approximately 15 miles of the old railroad right-of-way. end-of-track. The other permitted them, upon completion of accept­ On May 5, workers drove the last spike nected to the UP telegraph. Both Stanford able grade, to draw two-thirds of the Government subsidy bonds and a train-load of iron steamed across. and Durant took a swing at the spike and As the Nation's principal conservation agency, the Department of before the track was laid. missed. Nevertheless the telegrapher tapped the Interior has basic responsibilities to protect and conserve our land One day, in the heat of the race, UP crews out "DONE" and triggered celebrations in and water, energy and minerals, fish and wildlife, park and recrea­ By spring of 1868, CP surveyors were working as far east as Fort laid about 8 miles of track, and promptly every major city in the Nation. tion areas, and for the wise use of all those resources. The Depart­ Bridger, Wyo., and UP crews had laid out a line to the California lorded this achievement over CP. Not to ment also has a major responsibility for American Indian reservation border. CP graders were in the Wasatch Mountains, and UP graders be outdone, CP determined to top this rec­ Amid cheers and the shrill whistles of communities and for people who live in Island Territories under U.S. were working halfway across Nevada. The momentum was such that ord. The date was April 28; the site the locomotives, spectators and participants administration. the competing crews built about 225 miles of parallel grades. The gentle west slope of the Promontory. By shook hands and broke a bottle of cham­ FOR YOUR SAFETY race had got completely out of hand. Finally, in April 1869, repre­ early afternoon a picked crew had laid 6 pagne over the laurel tie. The Jupiter backed NATIONAL PARK SERVICE sentatives of the two companies met in Washington and chose Ogden, miles of track; by 7 o'clock that evening, a Observe speed limits and drive carefully, especially along the up and the 119 crossed the junction onto U.S. DEPARTMENT of the INTERIOR Utah, as the final junction point. The actual joining of the rails little more than 10. This record-setting feat railroad grade.When hiking, use caution along the track area. the CP tracks. Then 119 backed up and •iGPO 1986-491-414/20064 Reprint 1979 would be at Promontory Summit. UP would build from Ogden to stopped UP jeers and put Central Pacific Because of grassland fire danger, fires are not permitted. Jupiter crossed onto the UP tracks. Thus the Summit, and CP would then buy that section of line. within 4 miles of the junction point. transcontinental rail travel was symbolized. 2: 2 At 12:47 p.m., May 10, 1869, the telegrapher's three dots— "DONE" C.
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