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New RLMS: Promontory Where?
Oct. 30th, 2022 10:18 amOur production speed has slowed considerably, but we finally got a new episode of Railway Legends, Myths, and Stories completed and published. This is one of the episodes that Lisa wanted us to do from the start of us creating this series, as we tackle the oft-made mistake (including by prominent railway historians) of where the first US transcontinental railroad was completed.
This gave us an opportunity to use material shot during our 2019 trip to SpikeCon where we got to visit the Golden Spike National Historic Park.
On all of our trips on the California Zephyr, we've hoped there would be a need to divert the train over the former SP route directly across the Great Salt Lake, rater than via the ex-Western Pacific route south of the lake. The SP route does go via Promontory Point. OTOH, either route would happen in the middle of the night. On the gripping hand, we've been awake at least once on the ex-WP route via Silver Zone Pass, where the route makes nearly a complete loop in order to keep the grade to only 1%.
I thank those of you who watch our videos. We're unlikely to ever have the notoriety of the big YouTubers, but it's nice to be able to do these recordings anyway. And we learn things doing it, too, as we did when doing the research for what happened to the salvaged rails over the original Central Pacific route.
This gave us an opportunity to use material shot during our 2019 trip to SpikeCon where we got to visit the Golden Spike National Historic Park.
On all of our trips on the California Zephyr, we've hoped there would be a need to divert the train over the former SP route directly across the Great Salt Lake, rater than via the ex-Western Pacific route south of the lake. The SP route does go via Promontory Point. OTOH, either route would happen in the middle of the night. On the gripping hand, we've been awake at least once on the ex-WP route via Silver Zone Pass, where the route makes nearly a complete loop in order to keep the grade to only 1%.
I thank those of you who watch our videos. We're unlikely to ever have the notoriety of the big YouTubers, but it's nice to be able to do these recordings anyway. And we learn things doing it, too, as we did when doing the research for what happened to the salvaged rails over the original Central Pacific route.
