{"id":25634,"date":"2015-10-06T20:44:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T03:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=25634"},"modified":"2015-10-07T14:26:20","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T21:26:20","slug":"day-265-golden-spike-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=25634","title":{"rendered":"Day 265: Golden Spike Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first view upon coming out of the Visitor Center!<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

There are a lot of interpretive signs, and of course Wikipedia always has info<\/a>!<\/p>\n

The Last Spike!<\/p>\n

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Coast to Coast Jubilation! \u00c2\u00a0We don’t get that nearly enough anymore…<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

Original Rail.<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

It all looks pretty close to the original event, but without so many people.<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

The two engines: the Jupiter and the 119; replicas…but real steam!<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

The Author.<\/p>\n

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Here the Park Ranger was cleaning the varnished “last tie” so the people there wouldn’t get the tennis show prints of the previous people in their photo.<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, it stayed clean long enough for my photo too!<\/p>\n

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The Plaque.<\/p>\n

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Here it the front of the 119. \u00c2\u00a0“The 119 continued after the ceremony as a freight locomotive, being renumbered the\u00c2\u00a0343<\/i>. In 1903 it was scrapped for $1,000.” ~Wikipedia<\/p>\n

\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

~Curtis in Utah! {!-{><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first view upon coming out of the Visitor Center! There are a lot of interpretive signs, and of course Wikipedia always has info! The Last Spike! Coast to Coast Jubilation! \u00c2\u00a0We don’t get that nearly enough anymore… Original Rail. *** It all looks pretty close to the original event, but without so many people. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,33,6,5,45,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crater-lake-2015","category-historic","category-landscapes","category-motorcycles","category-on-the-road","category-pad-2015","category-photography","category-railroads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25634"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25711,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25634\/revisions\/25711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}