Walden Siding

Historical marker location:

Park Valley, Utah

( Marker is on Transcontinental Railroad Back Country Byway, on the right when traveling west.)

1898-1906.

Utah was the site of the first-ever transcontinental railroad connection in the United States. The historic meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads took place on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah.