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Click here to start a tour of Golden Spike National Monument. Click on any of the images to continue to the next page in the linked series of web pages. Or, see a thumbnail gallery. |
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| Golden Spike Visitor Center | Promontory Mountains | East Grade Auto Tour | ||
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| Central Pacific Grade | Union Pacific Grade | Bear River Migratory Bird Ref. | ||
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| Chinese Arch | Caboose | Jupiter Locamotive | ||
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| No. 119 Locamotive | Coal | Rail line at Promontory Summit | ||
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| Golden Spike Site | Railroad siding | Wave-cut terraces | ||
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| Wave-cut terraces | Dolomite outcrop | Cuts near Promontory Summit | ||
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| Union Pacific fill | Central Pacific fill | Cut on Big Fill Walk | ||
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| Cut on Big Fill Walk | Central Pacific's Big Fill | Big Fill Walk | ||
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| Big Fill and Trestle site | Big Fill Walk | Big Fill and Trestle site | ||
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| Big Fill and Trestle site | Union Pacific's Trestle site | Cut on Union Pacific Grade | ||
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| Wildflowers on Big Fill Walk | Wildflowers on Big Fill Walk | Ancient "sea cave" |
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Click here to see more geology tours of National Parks. |
| Click here to learn more about Golden Spike National Monument (National Park Service website: http://www.nps.gov/gosp/). See a list of selected references about the history, geology, and natural history of Golden Spike National Monument. |
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This website contains images produced from stereo photo pairs that were manipulated into anaglyphs (3D images). You will need red-and-cyan stereo viewing glasses to get the 3D visual effects. Photography on this website was taken in 2005. |
| This page is <https://gotbooks.miracosta.edu/gonp/gosp/> Last modified 1/19/2011 |
