IT’S DEFINITELY NOT SOMETHING YOU SEE EVERY DAY. A 43 FOOT TALL GOLDEN RAILROAD SPIKE ROLLING INTO IOWA. THE PUBLIC ART PIECE IS VISITING THE FIRST GOLDEN SPIKE MONUMENT AT THE UNION PACIFIC MUSEUM IN ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A massive golden spike honoring the thousands of workers who built the transcontinental railroad has arrived at its new home in Utah. Following a weeks-long journey that began in ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — People from Kentucky and Utah were at the Ashland Estate Thursday to celebrate the first stop of the 43-foot Golden Spike monument. It was created by Kentucky artist Douwe ...

A group of space veterans and big-name backers today took the wraps off the Golden Spike Company, a commercial space venture that aims to send paying passengers to the moon and back at an estimated ...

PROMONTORY, Utah — Friday is the 155th anniversary of the day the world changed with the joining of East and West right here in Utah. The transcontinental railroad was finished on May 10, 1869, a date ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — President Warren G. Harding drove a golden spike into the final coupling of the Alaska Railroad more than a century ago, a ceremonial act that marked the launch of a system to ...

OGDEN — Next week will be big for Union Station. May 3 will mark the Golden Spike Anniversary Whistle Stop Tour from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Hope Eggett, curator for the Museums at Union Station, told the ...

At the 149th Anniversary Celebration at Promontory Point in 2018, those celebrating began a countdown to this year's 150th anniversary. (Spike 150) The 150-year Golden Spike anniversary celebrates ...

Placing the famed Golden Spike, the last spike completing America’s first Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869, symbolized a new era for the country, a united front ...

Every chute gate presents an opportunity. And Sam Petersen isn’t taking any of them for granted. Before settling onto the back of Macza Pro Rodeo bucking horse Half Crow during Wednesday’s opening ...

“Dot, Dot, Dot. Done!” That message, sent 150 years ago Friday by telegrapher W.N. Shilling from Promontory Summit, Utah, set off celebrations as the driving of the Golden Spike completed the ...