Today we went to the Railroader's Festival at Golden Spike National Historic Site. We have wanted to go over there for awhile and today was the perfect opportunity!
We got there just in time to watch them bring the exact replicas of the two engines that met for the ceremony of the joining of the transcontinental railroad back in 1869. The engines are amazing and beautiful. It was so neat to hear all of their noises and watch the steam. Jacob was in heaven and could not get enough of them when they were coming in.
Once they brought them in they let you walk up into them - which was pretty neat - and take pictures. Then they did a re-enactment of the ceremony when the "golden spike" completed the railroad.
We walked around the visitor's center a little bit and then went and had a little picnic at the trail head of the hike that they have there. After our lunch though it started to warm up and get a little late so we decided we would do the auto tour instead which was still interesting.
It was a great morning and we enjoyed getting to know more about this event in our nation's history and, most importantly, spending some time together as a family.
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