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After pondering a bit I decided to head out into the wilds\u00c2\u00a0again. \u00c2\u00a020 miles down the Interstate and hang a left!<\/p>\n It looked a lot like yesterday…<\/p>\n …but not quite as far to a gas pump in Snowville, Utah. \u00c2\u00a0Only 93 more miles!<\/p>\n If you look hard enough, you can even see…<\/p>\n …the north end of the Great Salt Lake!<\/p>\n After gas at Snowville and a brisk ride South, I turned onto the last leg to Promontory Point.<\/p>\n There is a small wayside at the Big Fill.<\/p>\n The signs I have left larger once you click on them so the story is readable.<\/p>\n In a nut shell this is a fill the Central Pacific Railroad crew made over this valley, rather than a trestle the Union Pacific crews made.<\/p>\n Supposedly the grading crews passed each other and made parallel grades for 250 miles!<\/p>\n The Big Fill. \u00c2\u00a0No railroad actually runs through here anymore. \u00c2\u00a0A causeway across the Great Salt Lake was a lot shorter!<\/p>\n Looking back the way I came it is still pretty desolate, but at least you can see civilization from here at the base of the Wasatch Mountains.<\/p>\n Down the road and around the corner and there it is…<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n