It’s all coming together Friday, with the biggest celebration Promontory Summit, Utah, has seen in 150 years.
“Spike 150” ceremonies at Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory will mark the completion of the first transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869, when America’s west and east coasts were first joined by train tracks.
The morning will kick off with the arrival of replicas of the Jupiter and the No. 119, the locomotives that met at Promontory in 1869.
Friday’s official ceremony, starting at 11 a.m., will include a Chinese lion dance, a choir, a children’s chorus, a band, a Native American prayer and blessing, a wreath-laying ceremony, a historical re-enactment of the event, and the premiere of “As One,” a 30-minute musical-theater work inspired by the Golden Spike.