Feb. 25 (Friday), 10 a.m. – noon: Railroads in the Western USA
Presenter: Kevin Standlee
While the history of the building of the first transcontinental railroad and the driving of the Golden Spike are well-known and will be covered in this talk, railroads are still a modern, active technology, vital to modern society, even when it is not that obvious. Our speaker has traveled by train extensively and is an avid railroad enthusiast who will talk first about how we got that first railroad link between the US west coast and the rest of the country back in the 1860s and then about how that line and the others that connect east and west are a still an important, if often invisible, part of keeping our modern world supplied and running.
Coordinator: Lisa Hertel
For more information: lira@uml.edu
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