BGuthrie Photos: UT -- Golden Spike NHS -- Big Fill Loop Trail

UT -- Golden Spike NHS -- Big Fill Loop Trail:

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1. SPIKBF_030519_29.JPG: This is the Big Fill. "Competing for fame and money, the two railroads constructed over 250 miles of parallel grade. Here, the Central Pacific built the Big Fill before Congress gave final construction rights to the Union Pacific. Afterward, the UP sold the tracks through here to the CP, which then moved the road from the trestle to the fill. 250 teams of horses and 500 men worked nearly two months to complete the Big Fill. 500 feet long and 170 feet deep, it required almost 10,000 yards of material."
2. SPIKBF_030519_36.JPG: Next to the Big Fill was the Big Trestle. "Lacking time to fill the ravine before you, Union Pacific crews built the bridge shown in the photo. [Not mine!] One reporter said that nothing he could write 'would convey the idea of the flimsy character of that structure.' You can still see the abutments, and across the canyon, the bedrock shelves where the log uprights were placed. The trestle, about 400 feet long and 85 feet high took 38 days to build. It was completed on May 5, 1869 and used for about 6 months. Afterwards, the Big Fill, just up the canyon, was used for the permanent route."
3. SPIKBF_030519_37.JPG: You can see where the Big Trestle was as well as the two lines running in parallel back in the distance. The structures on the horizon are from the Thiokol rocket manufacturing facility.
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Wikipedia Description: Golden Spike National Historic Site
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Golden Spike National Historic Site is a U.S. National Historic Site located at Promontory Summit, north of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

It commemorates the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad where the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad met on May 10, 1869. The final joining of the rails spanning the continent was signified by the driving of a Golden spike.

The Golden Spike National Historic Site encompasses 2,735 acres (11 km²). In 2002, it received 49,950 visitors. It was authorized as a National Historic Site on April 2, 1957 under non-federal ownership. It was authorized for federal ownership and administration by an act of Congress on July 30, 1965.

In 1978, a general master plan for the site was adopted with the goal of maintaining the site's scenic attributes as closely as possible to its appearance and characteristics in 1869. In 2006, a petition to the Board on Geographic Names resulted in a name change for Chinamans Arch, a 20-foot limestone arch at Golden Spike NHS. In honor of the 19th century Chinese railroad workers, the arch is now known as the Chinese Arch.
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2003 photos: Equipment this year: I decided my Epson digital camera wasn't quite enough for what I wanted. Since I already had Compact Flash chips for it, I had to find another camera which used CF chips. That brought me to buy the Fujifilm S602 Zoom in March 2003. A great digital camera, I used it exclusively for an entire year. Trips this year: Three-week trip this year out west, mostly in Utah. Number of photos taken this year: 68,000.
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