Talk:Golden spike

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I've uploaded this image of The Golden Spike. The page is somewhat image-heavy at the moment, so when I added another image, it ended up creating large sections of white space.  The article needs a bit of tinkering and image organization and I don't have a ton of time to play around with it, so I'm dropping a link here in the hopes that someone else will get a chance to rearrange things around.  Neil916 (Talk) 16:36, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
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message: What is this article about?  Is it about the golden spike itself, or is it about the ceremony in which the golden spike was driven, thus completing the transcontinental railroad in the US?   The article seems to be confused about what it's talking about.  Neil916 (Talk) 16:51, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is about the four precious metal spikes and highly polished Laurelwood Tie featured at the Golden Spike Ceremony commemorating completion of America's First Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory May 10, 1869. Annual reenactments of the Ceremony are presented at Golden Spike National Historic Site at Promontory Summit, Utah. Daily presentations by Interpretive Park Rangers are a highlight of Park visitor's experiences at Golden Spike. There are also hiking and driving opportunities along the restored mile and a half of original size and weight rails, where the Replica "Jupiter" and "119" American Standard 4-4-0 Locomotives are displayed in the Spring and Summer, as well as along remnants of the original Transcontinental Railroad Grade. CrooksvilleIrish (talk) 15:55, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Just a comment- This is about the ceremony that used the four spikes. There is a separate article on the transcontinental railroad construction which culminated in the ceremony, but this is the detailed account of the ceremony. Risk Engineer (talk) 19:14, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
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message: There's a photograph accompanying this article which identifies an engine being carried on a flatcar as Virginia and Truckee Railroad No. 119.  However, this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_and_Truckee_Railroad
identifies the engine as No.18, which had been decorated to resemble the historic No. 119 for use in the centennial celebration in 1969.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ormewood (talk • contribs) 19:42, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
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message: If someone has information about the locations/fates of the two other spikes (two are in the article) I think it'd be a good addition to the article. ColinClark (talk) 07:36, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
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message: Well, it's the last day in April 2019. My name is Monte Crooks and in just 10 days, I return to Promontory Summit, Utah, where my Park Ranger career began back in 1988, just before the 119th Anniversary of the Golden Spike Ceremony. My First Person Living History Alter-Ego, Michael Keeney, comes down to Promontory as an Irish Rail-Working Angel for the Union Pacific Railroad in a presentation entitled "Hit or Myth." Michael's purpose is to clarify the Golden Spiked Mythconceptions, and there's a bunch o' them! 
The greatest Myth is that Leland Stanford, using a regular iron spike hammer, DROVE a 17.6 Carat solid-gold spike into a railroad tie at Promontory Point, Utah. FAKE NEWS! Days before the completion of America's First Transcontinental Railroad, newspaper reporters aboard Leland Stanford's Dignitary train en route to Promontory actually wrote their "eyewitness" accounts of the event and telegraphed the fiction to their San Francisco Newsletter Newspaper Company. The limited information used to imagine the scenario was that the reporters knew Stanford had a Golden Spike upon which the date May 8th, 1869 was engraved. Also, the only place predominately marked upon their map of the vicinity of where the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads were to meet was Promontory Point. To the reporter's minds, it was obvious that Stanford would drive the Spike at Promontory Point on May 8th! 
In 150 years, the Fake News still prevails. Completion took place at Promontory Summit, thirty-seven miles North of the Point, and nobody tried to do anything but ceremonially "tap" the four precious metal Spikes brought to the Summit. Michael Keeney's job is to replace the fiction with the facts, a domitable task indeed! I will update this talk as the day to leave from Prescott, Arizona to the Celebration arrives, and will fill in my observations of the Sesquicentennial Reverie! 
CrooksvilleIrish (talk) 01:14, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  It's been THAT LONG?! Comments on the 150th Golden Spike Ceremony 

message: If the most common sense of the term, “aftermath,” is in reference to negative repercussions of a terrible event, I wonder if this section title could be changed to a more fitting name. Many dictionaries probably agree about the negative meaning of the word, that it does refer to the things that follow from an event, but “especially one of a disastrous or unfortunate nature,” as dictionary.com explains it. The material under the Aftermath heading doesn’t say the Last Spike ceremony was a disastrous episode in US history; at worst it just suggests it wasn’t originally as big a deal as it is often thought to have been. So, I would submit that the article would be slightly improved if the heading of that section were changed to something more in keeping with the article’s neutral tone. Maybe, for example, “Significance,” “Subsequent Events,” “Historical Importance,” etc. 24.229.74.212 (talk) 00:26, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting proposal ... It would match most of the other history articles of a similar nature. Cheers Risk Engineer (talk) 12:54, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aftermath misnomer