It's the 150 anniversary of the Transcontinetal Railroad being completed
Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 05/10/2019 - 10:03pmat Promotory Point, Utah on May 10, 1869. This is a big event here as you can probably imagine. I used to go on field trips out to the Point back when schools did that. I have a replica of the Golden Spike that was used to complete the joining of the tracks.
Two big boys hitched together to pull an especially heavy load of 90 cars in 1958