2 Aug 2024 – Trip Day 124
This is a continuation of part 1.
This is the video from our visit to Golden Spike National Historic Park. After getting their Junior Ranger badges, we went out to look at the trains. The trains are replicas of the originals, as the originals were scrapped.
Engine 119 is coal fired, and Jupiter is wood fired, due to where the trains operated and the accessibility of the fuel needed.
Some of the technology and tooling had to be remade. Several parts were upgraded, such as the metals and method of construction – welding vs rivets. The brake system were also upgraded.
After completion of the line, it was quite the western boom town with lots of colorful characters.
World War 2 and its demand for steel caused the line to be salvaged. That little tidbit tends to get left out of the history lesson.
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