America’s National Parks Podcast
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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.
The Day it Rained Rocks
Protecting Alaska for Generations to Come
Yellowstone Boosts Cell Service, Glacier East Opens, Condors Return to Redwood | National Park News
Community Science in National Parks
The Battle of Bunker Hill
Restoring the Everglades
100.Years of Hot Springs, New Filming Rules | National Park News
Scandal and Special People of Effigy Mounds
100 Years at Mount Rainier
Digging Up Dinosaurs
Mask Mandate, Commercial Filming Permits Struck Down | National Park News
Wolves of Isle Royale
Little American Island
St. Croix Heroes and Mussels
The Steel Driving Man
Our 63rd Park | National Park News
Surviving Winter in the National Parks
Medgar Evers
Humpbacks
The Obelisk from Nowhere, Park Projects Funded, $270 Million Lawsuit | News from the Parks
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