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1. OGUS_190712_026.JPG: Weld the Past to the Present to Enrich the Future This monument is a grateful tribute to the builders of America's first Transcontinental Railroad, completed May 10, 1869, when the Golden Spike was driven at Promontory, Utah, 53 miles northwest of Ogden.Dedicated May 10, 1951, to honor those pioneers, who builded better than they know, and to encourage for all time the same joy of doing. Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association Union Pacific Railroad Company -- Southern Pacific Company Golden Spike Celebration Committee of Ogden No. 120
2. OGUS_190712_029.JPG: Daughters of Utah Pioneers No. 416 Erected 1981 Ogden City Wall In 1854 Ogden pioneers built a rock and mud wall a mile square along 28th Street, Wall Avenue and 21st Street. Madison Avenue was not completed because the Indians became peaceful. The eight-foot wall had a six-foot base, a 31 inch top and four gates. The cost of $40,000 was raised by $40.00 tax on each city lot, also a $10.00 tax on every able-bodied man over 18 years. The project was erected by 500 working men. Wall Avenue was named after this wall. Far South Weber County
3. OGUS_190712_074.JPG: Countdown to the 150th Anniversary Where Will You Be On May 10, 2019? spike150.org
4. OGUS_190712_077.JPG: Ben Day for 45 Years of Friendship and Community Service
5. OGUS_190712_086.JPG: Commemorating the Past
6. OGUS_190712_154.JPG: Laning Edward Laning From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Laning was an American painter. Career Background Laning was born in 1906 in Petersburg, Illinois. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago (1923–24) and the University of Chicago, (1925–27). He also studied at the Art Students League with Max Weber, Boardman Robinson, John Sloan and Kenneth Hayes Miller (1927–30). Paintings, murals In 1931, Laning's work formed part of the first major show at the newly formed Whitney Museum of American Art. He painted murals for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression as well as a post office mural in Rockingham, North Carolina (1937). In 1935, he painted the Ellis Island murals (chosen over Japanese-American artist Hideo Noda): It was a great relief to PWA, to the College Art Association, to Architects Harvey Wiley Corbett and Chester Holmes Aldrich and to Edward Laning last week to learn that Commissioner of Immigration & Naturalization Rudolph Reimer at Ellis Island had finally approved Artist Laning's designs for murals for the dining hall at New York's immigrant station. Cheered, Muralist Laning and his two assistants, James Rutledge and Albert Soroka, hustled to get his cartoons on tempera and gesso panels as soon as possible. In 1937, he painted murals in the New York Public Library, including his most famous work, "The Story of the Recorded Word." In 1980, Laning came to Ogden, Utah, to personally oversee the installation of his two 50-foot by 12-foot murals in the Grand Lobby of the historic Ogden Railway Station. The northern side depicts the Union Pacific company coming from Omaha, Nebraska, and the southern side depicts the Central Pacific coming from Sacramento, California. The National Academy of Design of New York City granted $100,000 to Union Station as his commission. Teaching Laning taught art at the Art Students League (1932–33, 1945–50, 1952), and the Kansas City Art Institute. He was a member of the American Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers and the National Academy of Design. He served as President of the National Society of Mural Painters from 1970 to 1974. Death Laning died in 1981 in New York, survived by his wife, artist Mary Fife Laning. Works In assessing his works, the Smithsonian Institution writes: In his work, Laning expressed his disenchantment with the political and social uncertainties of post-Depression America and his perception of the degradation of American values; in several paintings he used fire as a symbol of impending societal destruction. Laning's works have been displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago (1945), the Carnegie Institute (1945), and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1944–45). His works can be viewed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Richmond Professional Institute. In addition, his works can be seen at the New York Public Library and U.S. post offices in Rockingham, North Carolina and Bowling Green, Kentucky. Art * Fourteenth Street (1931) * 1929 Crash (1929?) * Pantheon (1937) * New York Public Library murals (1937): * * The Story of the Recorded Word * * Learning to Read * * History of the Written Word * The Role of the Immigrant in the Industrial Development of American (1937) * The Past as Connecting Threads in Human Life, triptych, USPO, Rockingham, North Carolina (1937) * The Escape (date?) * Coney Island Beach Scene (1938) * Prometheus (1942) * Armor in Alaska (1943 * Kiska Raid (1943) * Florence August 1944 (1944) * Saturday Afternoon at Sportsmans Park (ca. 1945) * The Building (ca. 1955) * Union Pacific (north side mural at Union Station) (1980) * Central Pacific (south side mural at Union Station) (1980)
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Wikipedia Description: Union Station (Ogden, Utah)
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Union Station, also known as Ogden Union Station, is a train station in Ogden, Utah, at the west end of Historic 25th Street, just south of the Ogden Intermodal Transit Center. Formerly the junction of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads, its name reflects the common appellation of train stations whose tracks and facilities are shared by railway companies.

No longer a railway hub, the building remains a cultural hub: it houses the Utah State Railroad Museum, the Spencer S. Eccles Rail Center, the John M. Browning Firearms Museum, Utah Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and the Browning-Kimball Classic Car Museum. An art gallery local and regional artists every month. The Myra Powell Gallery features traveling exhibits and the Station's permanent art collection. Union Station Research Library has an extensive collection of historic Ogden photographs and documents available to the public.

The last long-distance passenger train to use Union Station was Amtrak's Pioneer in May 1997. The adjacent Ogden Intermodal Transit Center serves the Utah Transit Authority's (UTA) FrontRunner commuter rail line.

History

On March 8, 1869, Union Pacific laid tracks through Ogden on its way to Promontory Summit to meet the Central Pacific and complete the transcontinental rail line. Four cities near this location, Corinne, Promontory, Uintah, and Ogden, competed with each other for the opportunity to house the train station that would be the junction for railroad travel in the Intermountain West. Promontory and Uintah lacked the necessary resources to house the Station. Corinne and Ogden competed for many years for the "Junction City" title, until Brigham Young donated several hundred acres of land to the two railroads on the condition that they build the yards and station in west Ogden.

The first station was built in 1869, a two-story wooden frame building on a mud flat on the banks of the ...More...
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