Today in history 144 years ago, The Driving of the Golden Spike!  This is going to be a great day…the weather is going to be near 80, sunny and very nice for this celebration.  Sherry and I are heading out to be their to see the steam engines brought from their storage areas to face each other for the celebration.  Our youngest Grandson will go with us and I know he is excited!  As am I.

It should be an almost full day of trains and pictures and speeches and more pictures.  I’ll post them up when I get back.

This is a spot in Americas history and it’s really hard to believe there isn’t a “big deal” out there.  It is far removed from the big cities and for that matter, the little cities.  An hours drive from my little burg of Willard.  And to top it off, once you get there it costs $10 to enter, a typical fee for a National Monument and/or Park, but when all there is to see are two trains parked on a track, a 15 minute movie about the history and a few artifacts…I have to question that fee.  But on the other hand I see they need to cover costs as best as they can.  It isn’t cheap trying to maintain a building and two trains WAY OUT THERE!

More to come!

Bears Butt

May 10, 2013