Promontory Summit, northwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, is notable as the location where the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States was officially completed on May 10, 1869. Numerous directors and dignitaries of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad were in attendance. President Ulysses S. Grant himself hammered in the Golden Spike to … Continue reading Promontory Point — The Meeting of the Two Major Railroads →

The Ames Monument is a large pyramid in Albany County, Wyoming, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson and dedicated to brothers Oakes Ames and Oliver Ames, Jr. The brothers were Union Pacific Railroad financiers. The monument was built at a cost of $65,000 and completed in 1892. The brothers garnered credit for connecting the nation by … Continue reading Ames Monument →