Frontiers of Transportation
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brwhiz
N 41° 39.542 W 112° 26.443
12T E 380046 N 4612922
This historical marker outlines the vast differences between the early travelers who passed by the site via wagon train and railroad in the mid-nineteenth century and the technologies developed for space travel alongside the old paths.
Waymark Code: WMFD58
Location: Utah, United States
Date Posted: 10/01/2012
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Frontiers of Transportation
Here you stand on one of the great frontiers of transportation in North America. In 1841, the route of the first emigrant [wagon] train to reach California overland climbed the mountain pass to your left. And the Oregon trail passed just 80 miles to the north.
Ahead, just over the Promontory Mountains, two hotly competing railroad companies, the Union Pacific coming west from Nebraska, and the Central pacific working east from California, joined their rails on May 10, 1869, completing the world's first transcontinental railroad.
The United States remains a nation on the move. Today's technological frontier has been lifted skyward by the Thiokol Corporation, which builds and tests rockets here in northern Utah to support America's space and defense programs.