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 Gift from Tokyo
Kitty Hawk
An Impossible Climb
77 Years Ago
The Solitude of Self
A Yellowstone Christmas
The Lost Horse Mine
Four Men on a Mountain
Switchbacks
Hell, with the Fires Out
How National Parks Stop Thieves
At Home with Harry and Bess
The Wonderful Wind Cave
Corps of Discovery Part 2
Corps of Discovery
His Name Was Mudd
Stories from the Sands
A Strenuous Holiday
America's Spa
The Sleeping Volcano
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