Day dawned too early in Wells…actually, the Dawn was OK, it was just the COLD that left me in my bed! Â But once I got out I had a mystery. Â What the heck was this?
!!!!!
After pondering a bit I decided to head out into the wilds again.  20 miles down the Interstate and hang a left!
It looked a lot like yesterday…
…but not quite as far to a gas pump in Snowville, Utah. Â Only 93 more miles!
If you look hard enough, you can even see…
…the north end of the Great Salt Lake!
After gas at Snowville and a brisk ride South, I turned onto the last leg to Promontory Point.
There is a small wayside at the Big Fill.
The signs I have left larger once you click on them so the story is readable.
In a nut shell this is a fill the Central Pacific Railroad crew made over this valley, rather than a trestle the Union Pacific crews made.
Supposedly the grading crews passed each other and made parallel grades for 250 miles!
The Big Fill. Â No railroad actually runs through here anymore. Â A causeway across the Great Salt Lake was a lot shorter!
Looking back the way I came it is still pretty desolate, but at least you can see civilization from here at the base of the Wasatch Mountains.
Down the road and around the corner and there it is…
The Golden Spike National Historic Site!
~Curtis in Utah! {!-{>
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