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 Green Table
The Great American Outdoors Act
The Nine
News from the Parks | National Parks Adjust to a New Normal
The Life of a Canine Ranger
How a National Park Becomes a World Heritage Site
The Great Humanitarian
White Nose Syndrome
National Park Week Throwback Thursday: Other Great National Park Podcasts
Dust of the Earth
Angel of the Battlefield
The Return of the Wolves
Oh Shenandoah
News from the Parks | March 2020
Going to the Sun
Wilderness of Rock
Prometheus
News from the Parks | February 2020
101 Years Apart
A Lasting Impact
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