For visitors who brave the season's chilly weather, Golden Spike has a treat

"For visitors who brave the season's chilly weather, Golden Spike has a treat: Steam fills the air at monument's Winter Festival" by Kristen Moulton, © The Salt Lake Tribune, 1/1/2006. (News Article)

"GOLDEN SPIKE NATIONAL MONUMENT – It's a shame most visitors to the place where the East and West rails met in 1869 come in the summer. Those warm-weather folks never get to see the steam of a locomotive, fueled by several cords of wood, 800 gallons of water and cold enough temperatures to make billowy white clouds. That's why the Golden Spike began its Winter Steam Festival, held each New Year's Eve, several years ago. ... " [More]

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