Promontory

[laughs] Um, but it, but, you know, I, I still do like those sort of, tho- those touches and everything, but no, it's not in any way, like, an accurate portrayal of, of, of the events, you know? It does recreate...

And, and I think they claimed, but it, it's not true, that it j- they, it was the actual two trains that met at, uh, what? Uh, Promontory Point in, um, Utah, the famous photo in 1869, I think.

They, they recreate it at the end of the movie.

Um, but so you, so you get to see some of that, but there's very little actual historical material here, [laughs] I would, I would say.

The week in history.

May 10, the Central Pacific and Union railroads meet in Promontory, Utah.

The Transcontinental Railroad was completed.

On May 11th, in the week, dust storm sweeps the Great Plains across the eastern states.

... and noteworthy, um, locally, but also across the country.

So in our second year of making cheese, we had kind of perfected our Promontory recipe-

Okay

... which is our adaptation of the Utah State cheddar recipe.

The two lines were moving towards one another.

And in 1869, they would meet at Promontory Summit in Utah.

The continent was about to be bound together by steel.

But the war for the West was not over.

okay back off we are in there because i don't know this this law at all there's a there's a book that well i think a lot of people should read it's called uh uh how's the name of it it's uh nothing like it in the world it has to do with the building of the Transcontinental Railroad here in the U.S.

But there was a predecessor book on the western half, I don't know if you ever read it, called The High Road to Promontory, which was the Central Pacific, all the tunnels and all that stuff.

Well, the first book I referenced... used an awful lot of the research from the High Road Deprematory.

And on every single page, there was 15 footnotes citing the page and everything from the High Road Deprematory.

And, uh, the railroad community later shifted, and what is known as the Lucin Cutoff was constructed in the early 1900s.

The cutoff, uh, is that trestle across the Great Salt Lake that allowed trains to get through, uh, between Ogden and Lucin, um, and bypass Promontory Point and the Golden Spike area.

And, uh, that was kind of the end of it for Lucin's boom.

But, uh, a century later, uh, Lucin now has, as Rod Boehm writes, a new claim to fame.

They have plenty of labor.

They have lots of, as you mentioned, lots and lots of people coming in, and then the railroad arrives in 1869, right? Just north of Salt L- the Salt Lake, at Promontory Summit, it's where the Wedding of the Rails happened, that famous event-

Mm-hmm

...

But yes, he also invented the magnetized car lock.

Of course, the Transcontinental Railroad was completed in Promontory, Utah.

Most people know that around here.

It is the home of the Bonneville Salt Flats, 30,000 acres of desolate, densely packed salt pan.