America’s National Parks Podcast
Society & Culture:Places & Travel
On May 10th, 1869, in Promontory Summit, Utah, two sets of ordinary railroad tracks met under extraordinary circumstances. Together the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad companies, building from Sacramento, California, and Omaha, Nebraska, joined to revolutionize travel. Before that day, a single person would pay $1000 to travel from east to west in the United States. On a steam engine train, it only cost $150. More than 1700 miles of track were laid in just seven years, across deserts, over plains, and through mountains. Its completion was one of the most defining moments in our nation’s history.
On today’s episode of America’s National Parks, the Golden Spike National Historical Park, and the nation’s first transcontinental railroad, celebrating its 150th anniversary this May.
Corps of Discovery
His Name Was Mudd
Stories from the Sands
A Strenuous Holiday
America's Spa
The Sleeping Volcano
Ballads of Big Bend
Rangers Make the Difference
The 14th Colony
The Land That Made a President
Unleashing a Tamed River
Acadia National Park and the Year Maine Burned
The Gateway to Arizona
Alcatraz and the Civil War
The Curse of the Petrified Forest
Drunken Subterranian Terrorism
Dred and Harriet Scott
Legends of Denali
Lady Liberty
Delicate Arch, and the Strange 1950s Schemes to Reinforce It
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