Enhancement Materials - Rendezvous at Promontory: A New Look at the Golden
Spike Ceremony

Activity One

Activity Two

Activity Three

Activity Four

Amazing Railroad Construction Photographs

Additional Amazing Railroad Construction Photos

Irish and Other Workers

Engineers

Additional Engineers Photos

Chinese Workers

Additional Chinese Workers Photos

Photographers of the Transcontinental Railroad

Golden Spike Ceremony Photographs

Additional Golden Spike Ceremony Photographs

These enhancement materials go with Rendezvous at Promontory: A New Look at the Golden Spike Ceremony lesson plan and the Utah Historical Quarterly article "Rendezvous at Promontory: A New Look at the Golden Spike Ceremony" by Michael W. Johnson, Winter 2004, Volume 72, Number 1.

Utah Historical Quarterly can be purchased by contacting Craig Fuller.

All enhancement materials from the collections of the Utah State Historical Society, unless otherwise noted.

Native American and
the Railroad, 1868

Inside a Central Pacific Tunnel	Long Ravine Bridge	Central Pacific's Bloomer Cut	First Bridge Built by Union Pacific

Biggest Bridge of Union Pacific	The Great Cut	1000 Mile Tree	Weber Canyon Bridge and Tunnel

Weber Canyon Tunnel	Promontory Trestle	Devil's Gate Bridge	Golden Spike Excursion Train

Lincoln's First Meeting with Dodge	U.S. Army	U.P Railroad Survey Crew	Grenville Dodge

Brigham Young	Mormon Workers Uintah Mountains	Mormon Workers Weber Canyon	Mormon Workers Weber Canyon

Mormon Workers Echo Canyon	Mormon Workers Uintah Mountains	Samuel B. Reed	John (Jack) Casement

Dan Casement

Cape Horn (Link to Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History website?
View of Cape Horn from above Long Ravine (Link to Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History website
Transcontinental Railroad Map (Link to Library of Congress website)
Thomas (Doc) Durant (Link to Coxrail website)
Oakes Ames (Link to Coxrail website)
Oliver Ames (Link toCoxrail website)
Peter A. Dey (Link to University of Iowa Libraries website)
John (Jack) Casement (Link to Coxrail website)
William B. Ogden (Link to Encyclopedia of Chicago website)
John A. Dix (Link to Mr. Lincoln's White House website)

Irish Track Layers	Workers Camping	Workers in Tunnel	U.P. Workers Echo Canyon

Union Pacific Workers	Workers Singing Group	Camp in Wyoming	Graders Cabins

Union Pacific Construction Camp	Boarding Train or Construction Train	Wagon Train with Supplies

Theodore Judah (link to Sacramento History website)
Mark Hopkins (link to San Francisco Museum website)

Samuel Skerry Montague (link to Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History website)
Lewis M. Clement (link to Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History website)

Camera and Photographer

Charles R. Savage

Alfred A. Hart (link to Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History website)

Morning of May 10, 1869	Assembling to Lay the Last Rail	Assembling to Lay the Last Rail	Assembling to Lay the Last Rail

During the Ceremony	Laying of the Last Rail	Shaking Hands at Promontory	Celebration at Promontory

Railroad Officials and Wives	U.P. Directors in Private Railroad Car	U. P. Officials at Promontory

Gap Between Union Pacific and Central Pacific Rails (link to National Park Service website)

Group of Engineers
Echo Canyon

Engineers Camping Weber Canyon

Sketch of Dodge's Engineering Camp

Sketch of Dodge's Engineering Camp 2

Anna Ferona Judah

Leland Stanford

Collis P. Huntington

Mark Hopkins

James Harvey Strobridge

Hewes Ceremonial Golden Spike with Gold Nugget Attached (link to Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History website)
Inscriptions on the Golden Last Spike *note date of May 8, 1869, the original date set for the ceremony (link to Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History website)

Hewes Gold Spike
Hewes Gold Spike