Utah Part 3...

On a whim on the way home from our trip to Utah we decided to take a detour and stop here...

We lucked out and got there right in time to see them bringing out the trains... reenacting the day when the last spike was set, completing the transcontinental railroad.

The trains were replicas of the actual trains that were used in the ceremony... pretty cool... one was a coal fired steam engine and the other a wood fired steam engine. We weren't able to go inside but we could take a peak from the outlook point.

Here's the Jupiter train that came from the Central Pacific RailRoad line...

and train 119 coming from the Union Pacific Railroad..

It was blistering hot out so we decided to just read as many signs as we could and then took pictures of the rest to read later. We watched a really good "making of the transcontinental railroad" movie... and the kiddos also did the Jr. Ranger program which was really hard... took us over 2 hours to complete it... the kiddos were about to give up on it when we helped them out a bit.

But they finally finished and were really glad to finally take the oath and get their badge.

Glad we took the time to see it... one of those places way off the beaten path, and we probably won't ever go back again but fun nevertheless to share another important history moment with the kiddos. Plus we got to put a new stamp in our National Park passport.