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The unincorporated community of Promontory and its location, Promontory Summit, are also frequently referred to as "Promontory Point". [3] Promontory Summit is the site where the First transcontinental railroad was completed and is located about 30 miles (48 km) north–northwest of the promontory, near the north end of the Promontory Mountains.
Promontory is an area of high ground in Box Elder County, Utah, United States, 32 mi (51 km) west of Brigham City and 66 mi (106 km) northwest of Salt Lake City.Rising to an elevation of 4,902 feet (1,494 m) above sea level, it lies to the north of the Promontory Mountains and the Great Salt Lake. [2]
National Park Service map of Golden Spike National Historical Park. The Golden Spike National Historical Park encompasses 2,735 acres (1,107 ha). Initially just 7 acres (2.8 ha) when it was established in 1957, limited to the area near the junction of the two rail systems, the site was expanded by 2,176 acres (881 ha) in 1965 through land swaps and acquisition of approximately a strip of land ...
The original "golden spike", on display at the Cantor Arts Museum at Stanford University. The Golden Spike (also known as The Last Spike [1]) is the ceremonial 17.6-karat gold final spike driven by Leland Stanford to join the rails of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento and the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha on ...
The unincorporated community of Promontory and its location, Promontory Summit, are also frequently referred to as "Promontory Point". [4] Promontory Summit is the site where the First transcontinental railroad was completed and is located about 30 miles (48 km) north–northwest of Promontory Point, near the north end of the Promontory Mountains.
The Promontory Mountains of 35 mi (56 km) were bypassed by the First transcontinental railroad in 1869, which came just north of it at Promontory Summit. [5] The replacement 1904 Lucin Cutoff trestle crossed the southern tip of the mountains at Promontory Point, [6] and the trestle was replaced in 1959 by an earthern causeway.
This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of the U.S. State of Utah. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [2] [3] The first table below ranks the 50 highest major summits of Utah ...
The Big Fill was an engineering project on the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. state of Utah.To avoid a costly 800-foot (240 m) tunnel through mountainous terrain east of Promontory Summit, Central Pacific engineers mapped an alternate route that still needed to span the deep Spring Creek Ravine.