America’s National Parks Podcast
Society & Culture:Places & Travel
On May 10th, 1869, in Promontory Summit, Utah, two sets of ordinary railroad tracks met under extraordinary circumstances. Together the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad companies, building from Sacramento, California, and Omaha, Nebraska, joined to revolutionize travel. Before that day, a single person would pay $1000 to travel from east to west in the United States. On a steam engine train, it only cost $150. More than 1700 miles of track were laid in just seven years, across deserts, over plains, and through mountains. Its completion was one of the most defining moments in our nation’s history.
On today’s episode of America’s National Parks, the Golden Spike National Historical Park, and the nation’s first transcontinental railroad, celebrating its 150th anniversary this May.
A Presidential Barbecue
River on Fire
Guardian of the Gulf
The Strange World of National Park Gift Stores
The Night the Mountain Fell
A Rescue in the Grand Tetons
Apostle of the Cacti
9:02 A.M.
Rover
"Goodbye, Death Valley."
A Century of Progress
Four Voices, Four Missions
A Great Obelisk
Fighting on Arrival, Fighting for Survival
The Chestnut Blight
The Great Smoky Homestead
Rangers Make the Difference II
A White House Burns
A Rocky Mountain Tragedy
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