Visiting Golden Spike

Quent and I were fortunate to have my grandparents and Parker and Elle stay with us the weekend before Slim & Melissa's wedding. On Friday, we took a journey across Box Elder County to the Golden Spike monument.

Parker was a bit disturbed that the original golden spike was no longer in the ground and the spike on display was a replica as the original was on display in a museum at Stanford University. We then learned that the the trains on the tracks were also replicas as the original trains that met as they completed the transcontinental railroad had been sold for scrap metal in the early 1900's.

We had a great afternoon learning about the railroad and touring the museum located at the site.

Following our tour of the monument we stopped at Peach City and Grandpa bought us all ice cream cones. Thanks grandpa!