Golden Spike Reenactment 2023! Back to Promontory Utah for National Railroad Day on May 10 2023.

We were back at the Golden Spike National Park at Promontory Utah for the reenactment of the driving of the Golden Spike in 1869 when the Union Pacific met the Central Pacific completing the nation's first transcontinental railroad.
We come out here often because it really is a grand event, and always fun to see the two replicas of the original 1868 locomotives that were present and placed nose-to-nose on opposite sides of the joint between the two railroads.
Volunteers from the community reenact the event at the exact time it happened in 1869.
www.nps.gov/gosp/index.htm
#done #steamlocomotive #transcontinentalrailroad

[@Santafefrank]

Thanks

[@tgmccoy1556]

Old UP family here. This always gets me.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Great event still

[@loispadgett6306]

WOW what fun that most of been for you to see wish I could have seen it. I have the 119 in N scale just need the Jupiter now. The 119 had the passenger car with it hope to find the Jupiter with it's passenger cars also. Thank you so much for sharing that historical event with us. Hope you 2 have a great Sunday and see you Tuesday. GOD BLESS 🚂💖🚂💖🚂💖🚂💖

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi again. We have the 119 in n. And both in HO. A friend has both in 1/2”. Odd size. While they run they never do as in 1/2” the gauge is just under 2 1/2”. So not any normal model gauge. Blessings back.

[@vettebecker1]

Love this!! on my bucket list to visit this site from South Carolina! I so want the LGB set of these locomotives, but at a minimum cost of $8,000 it's only a dream. Being married, my wife lost it with what I spent on my 7.5-gauge locomotive!! The park Employees that get paid to "Screw Around" with these exquisite replicas are truly in a place I would love to be. A Dream come true

[@ToyManTelevision]

It’s a great place to visit. Make a plan!!

[@71468NOVA]

I also live in South Carolina and been making plans with my wife to travel (begging) to Utah!

[@valeriebassett3107]

Awesome!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks!!

[@kenshores9900]

Great piece of history. It emphasizes the role that trains had in building this country.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Amazing changes to the world after building this railroad. Within a few years four more transcontinental railroads.

[@kenshores9900]

@@ToyManTelevision Never boring, always interesting and unique! Be safe. Enjoy your adventures.

[@beckyscreativespooniebeehive]

Part of my family were there on Thursday (the 11th) (so, the day after you guys, i think), they really enjiyed it. (I wasnt able to go, hopefully sometime).

[@growclipbonsaiforseniors1951]

Now this was one super cool video. Thanks for the memories.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks again!!! 😀

[@markcarson853]

One of your better videos for sure!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks!

[@northpennvalleysteamrailroad]

Happy 154th Anniversary to the first Transcontinental Railroad!

[@ToyManTelevision]

The “Great Event “.

[@tomas5376]

2nd time I've seen this ceremony! Love it! gracias

[@vincenthuying98]

Dear Dale and Karyn, always a pleasure to see you two attend the commemoration of the golden spike event! Cheerio

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks !!

[@MaxTheKiller1915]

This really was a day for our countrys history and to Quote a man that said "What was it the engine said Pilots touching Head to Head. facing on the single track line. half a World Behind each back." ❤

[@ToyManTelevision]

A grand day.

[@MaxTheKiller1915]

@@ToyManTelevision Yes indeed and i just want to say this D. O. N. E. Those words really were something for Celebration. you're videos are really good too 🙂

[@Mike-tg7dj]

Seeing that made think of so many things. One the locomotive orientation was looking north with the Jupiter of the Central Pacific on the left coming from the west meeting Union Pacific on the right coming east. Eventhough this is 2023 every year is different in that it could be raining or like this year it looked freezing cold! Folks were bundled up with at least hoodies. No one in t-shirts and shorts. Again👍

[@ToyManTelevision]

May in Utah. If it’s not raining 🌧️ or snowing 🌨️ then it’s hot.

[@chiparooo]

Very cool! Didn’t even know they still did this. Thanks for sharing!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks again for watching!

[@georgebottarini1788]

Love this. Your music score was perfect.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi again. Thanks!!! I love doing the music.

[@mylesspear]

Great video! Always love seeing stuff from promontory. Got a little story for ya’. I was a freshman in college when the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad took place. I loved the fact that the message sent via telegraph to the nation was “done” so much that I swore I’d put that on my graduation cap when I graduated. Fast forward to now; I just graduated this past Friday and true to my word, I put “done” in Morse code on my cap. A fitting way to end my collegiate education! ;)

[@ToyManTelevision]

Sweet!! Daw de dit. Daw daw daw. Daw dit. Dit. Now known as #Done.

[@jeffreyeash9720]

I enjoy your historical videos so much oh to be there May 10, 1869 to see the vision of Abraham Lincoln and so many others as this nation was joined east to west to bad aor leaders dont have the vision of years gone by when this nation was firged out of the wilderness

[@ToyManTelevision]

Getting things done Vs getting 5 seconds on tv by saying something stupid.

[@edwinsinclair9853]

Interesting that some of the art wok on these locomotives was done by Disney artist Ward Kimball. Kimball was the owner operator of The Grizzly Flats Railroad in San Gabriel Valley, California. The Grizzly Flats featured its own steam locomotive the Emma Nevada. Kimball was also a fine trombone player and played with the Original Firehouse Five Plus Two. The locomotives were built in Costa Mesa, Ca. by O'Conner Engineering.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup take a look at the main video on the channel page! Walking with Walt one.

[@charlesmcclure5994]

And to think that was such an accomplishment back in the day, no GPS back then just the surveyor and good math skills 👍👍

[@ToyManTelevision]

And they could lay track to within a small fraction of an inch over miles. Even in tunnels they were never off by more than half an inch

[@ThatBIGTRAINGuy]

Always great seeing these beautiful engines. I think my Dad was the best Gov. of Arizona (even with his shorts), but then I am biased! That was in the 129th year. I need to dig out my N Scale Jupiter.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Governor of Arizona?

[@ThatBIGTRAINGuy]

@@ToyManTelevision Yep, my Dad played the part when we visited.

[@ToyManTelevision]

@@ThatBIGTRAINGuy that would have been FUN. So you came in just for that one day?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Be funny if I was there.

[@ThatBIGTRAINGuy]

@@ToyManTelevision Haha! Well it wasn't the actual anniversary. About a couple of weeks after.

[@seanpacificrailroad3700]

This is so amazing thanks for sharing. Happy Mother’s Day, and this is definitely on my bucket list I wanna ring the bell. 👍😀

[@ToyManTelevision]

Happy right back!😀

[@furlosifurfox5794]

119 is soooo pretty

[@ToyManTelevision]

Love it!!

[@SaintCoemgen]

I know that the Jupiter and 119 are reproductions... But I for one think their historical value if undervalued simply running at Promontory. I would love to see the Jupiter put on rails to Sacramento, take a few couches there, be there in Sacramento for an exhibition, coordinated with the Sacramento Railway Museum, then run a line of couches over the sierras back to Utah (not exactly to Promontory of course, as that line no longer exists). The running of the Big Boy was great. But I, for one, think that running the Jupiter from Sacramento over the Sierra would be even more amazing. 🙂

[@ToyManTelevision]

Well the parks department is super careful with these. And they run every day in the summer. So that would never but it would be awesome

[@SaintCoemgen]

@@ToyManTelevision Well.... let us hope for the awesome. Because it would be awesome.... 🙂

[@finlayfraser9952]

Dale, Karyn, it seems s shame that such fine locomotives never get the chance to put real miles under their wheels

[@ToyManTelevision]

There is a “plan” to lay track to the bottom of the hill and even Corine. Bet it never happens though.

[@utahcoasterenthusiasts]

They do run them in week between Christmas and New Years for the Steam festival. Its cool to see.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hum. Be fun to see. Weather permitting.

[@robertemmons2260]

Another beautiful reenactment! Love the story behind this occasion and of the locomotives. Just think. There would have been two different locomotives perforing this historical event if it weren't for some mishaps that had happened on the way. One of which flood waters had turned a mild creek into a raging torrent at the bridge at Devil's Gate bridge in Wyoming, where the engineer wouldn't take a chance crossing the bridge with his locomotive, whose number is lost to history. Union Pacific's No. 119 out of Ogden had came to the rescue. As always, you two put on a hell of a show! Thanks again for another great video!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup. 119 forced into history by accident.

[@jamesklove9629]

Crazy what the railroads got done 1869 1881 in USA and Canada.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Amazing feat. And 100 years later men walked on the moon. What progress.

[@royreynolds108]

Two gorgeous locomotives. To think that neither one was supposed to be there in the plans. Both were substitutes for the planned locos because of accidents.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup. 119 was a last minute substitute.

[@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226]

Hey guys have y’all ever been on a gravity train 😉

[@ToyManTelevision]

Nope. Interesting history there.

[@creative_planning_with_eryn]

I have been there before

[@ToyManTelevision]

Fun place

[@garyacker7388]

I remember when there was nothing but the stone pyramid and that was all. We went rabbit hunting along the old road bed.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup. When I first went out there I was stunned at how little was there.

[@kevinwooldridge8261]

Thanks you two! And Happy Mother's Day Karyn🎉 It's been awhile since I've commented so 👍👍 on the layout!! But to this post... how far from Tremonton is Promontory anyway?(I left Logan in '75) Take care and be safe my friends 🤠

[@ToyManTelevision]

About 45 miles. 35 from Corine.

[@kevinwooldridge8261]

@@ToyManTelevision thanks Dale... that's pretty much how I remember things. We got pretty close when we went out to do some hunting/plinking around but I didn't realize it at the time 😞.✌️🫶

[@microbusss]

someday I gotta get these locos in HO scale I want the older Bachmann ones tho of course 150+ years later UP owns both sides now!

[@ToyManTelevision]

The new ones are much more expensive but better. We have the older ones.

[@microbusss]

@@ToyManTelevisionnot crazy about the new colors either but they are nice

[@ToyManTelevision]

@@microbusss ditto on the colors. No idea why they didn’t just use the accurate colors.

[@johnd8892]

I was hoping this would have lots of references to Promontory Summit and the sign saying that so I could refer people still saying Promontory Point to the vid to hopefully correct them.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Common problem isn’t it. Even in books and film. Sigh.

[@johnd8892]

@@ToyManTelevision I have got to thank you for first educating me on the correct Promontory Summit location in your vid leading up to the 150 event pointing out the Point and what it looked like. Up till then all my book based references I had scene had it wrong. Instructive also of the value of checking statements in books and other sources. So well done to you.

[@Madisonvillehartfordandeastern]

I have a 3D printed golden railroad spike

[@Madisonvillehartfordandeastern]

I’m making the real golden spike but it’s the gold silver and iron spike

[@mychaldbeausoleil3043]

Could be this one's ears, but the whistle sounded subdued? Or is it just me, that is now 75yrs above the grass?

[@johnburger3287]

The wind was blowing very hard. That makes a big difference.

[@ToyManTelevision]

If really hard to record loud sound. It can be fattened in post. But a live recording is a real challenge.

[@ResidentOfTheAbyss]

You should have shown the placard that was on the the railroad tie commemorating the spot where the golden spike was driven. Good video though.

[@ToyManTelevision]

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