It took 3 days to get to Salt Lake City from Kirkland WA. We don't travel more than 250 miles per day, if we can help it. Our first adventure was to go to Promontory Point (back north from whence we just came...oh, well.) But a journey through 30+ miles of "nothing but miles and miles of...not flat, but rolling hills...with some looking somewhat like mountains"...until we reached the spot where the last spike was driven into the ground to establish the transcontinental railway system. East meets west. Oh, Wow!!!
Replicas of the original trains that met...from the east, driven by coal, and from the west, driven by wood. What a sight. Seriously...in the middle of nowhere!!
There was somewhat of a "show" between the replicas of the two original steam engines.
The original photo of the "day the two engines met" must have been quite an ordeal. With miles and miles of nothing but miles and miles...plus several ravines that needed to be filled to allow the train straight passage to the next point seems unconceivable. Cannot imagine being a "pioneer" traveling these routes.
This area is north of the great salt lake...but, as you can see, there are remnants of salt left behind. The concentration of salt in the great salt lake is 48% greater than the salt in the Pacific Ocean. Give THAT some thought.
The surrounding areas was really desolate. Incredible.
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