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The nearly 7,000-pound sculpture left Kentucky ... Images of railroad workers appear in “bas-reliefs” on all four sides of the spike, which took 28 months to complete, the foundation said.
The original golden spike ... created the sculpture. “We’ve been waiting for three years, and finally it is here,” exclaimed Margaret Yee, chairperson of the Chinese Railroad Workers ...
PROMONTORY, Utah — Golden Spike National Historical Park will have a new sculpture to commemorate those who built the first transcontinental railroad, with its final pieces put into place on May ...
The Golden Spike Monument, a 43.3 foot tall sculpture honoring those that made the transcontinental railroad possible, made its stop at North Platte’s Golden Spike Tower & Visitors Center Monday ...
(KUTV) — A Utah artist has created a 6,000 pound bison sculpture to gift to the Golden Spike National Historical Park in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad.
This week, a 43-foot railroad spike arrived at the steps of the Utah state capitol in Salt Lake City. The sculpture was commissioned to honor the sacrifice of workers who toiled on the ...
BOULDER — Boulder County’s 150th anniversary sculpture competition has come down to a tie, for the time being, between an airborne hawk and a Monarch butterfly perched on a railroad spike.
This weekend marks 151 years since a golden spike marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in Utah. Now, a massive bison sculpture honoring both that achievement and the ...
"I had been painting and painting and painting, and finally I got the bug in me to work with a sculpture ... Kuhn says he welded about 5,000 railroad spikes in the image of three people, each ...