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News Wire: Golden Spike commemoration draws huge crowd for hours of ceremonies

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Thursday, June 13, 2019 3:32 PM

Great film!  Thanks for posting it Balt!

I didn't know Ward Kimball and some of his Disney collegues were involved, that's some interesting trivia.

If I remember right, David Kloke has the O'Connor Engineering drawings for #119 and "Jupiter" now, and used them to build his replicas of "Leviathan" and "York."

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, June 13, 2019 1:16 PM

The recreation of the Jupiter and the 119

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM2A2NEaRqg

 

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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Posted by Brian Schmidt on Sunday, May 12, 2019 11:02 AM

PROMONTORY SUMMIT, Utah — For one day on Friday, lonely, windswept Promontory Summit filled with thousands of visitors eager to celebrate the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad 150 years ago today. The morning began with positi...

http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2019/05/10-golden-spike-commemoration-draws-huge-crowd-for-hours-of-ceremonies 

Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine

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