Golden Spike visit ideas

From: "Randy Hees" hees@rcn.com

I am trying to burn some vacation days before they turn to dust, and am doing a drive next week that includes the Golden Spike National Monument most of Thursday 8/23.

So, what do I need to see. I plan on doing both driving loops. I will walk the grade where appropriate. I will visit the visitor center. I will get to see the locos... Ideas welcome.

I have downloaded the various documents on their web site including the Cultural resource inventory.

—Randy

First advocate for a Pacific Railroad

Can anyone supply a copy or transcription of the February 8, 1832 editorial advocating building a railroad to the Pacific written by Judge S. W. Dexter of Ann Arbor, Michigan in his newspaper, the Weekly Emigrant?