May 10th Special Days - Featuring 29+ Train Freebies!
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| The Golden Spike |
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Golden Spike Day (1869)-- Today marks the anniversary of the creation of the nation's first transcontinental railroad. The
Golden Spike(aka
The Last Spike) is the ceremonial final spike driven by Leland Stanford to join the rails of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory.
Read: The Golden Spike
-- In the mid-1860s, as the Union Pacific Railroad headed westward from Nebraska, another company, the Central Pacific, pushed eastward from California. Their goal was to meet somewhere in between, forming a single railway line to bridge the continent. That historic meeting took place in May 1869 in northern Utah, and photographer Andrew J. Russell was there to document the historic event. His work resulted in one of the most important photos of the 19th century and probably the most famous railroad image of all time. The photo, often called
East and West,was viewed by a worldwide audience and affirmed railroads were at the cutting edge of transportation technology.
Ten Mile Day
-- On May 10, 1869, the final spike in North America's first transcontinental railroad was driven home at Promontory Summit, Utah. Illustrated with the author's carefully researched, evocative paintings, here is a great adventure story in the history of the American West -- the day Charles Crocker staked $10,000 on the crews' ability to lay a world record ten miles of track in a single, Ten Mile Day.
• The
Golden SpikeCeremony -- Quality digital reproduction of a vintage photograph from the DS Decor collection. East Meets West - the
Golden Spikeceremony, Promontory Summit, Utah May 10, 1869. Printed with only quality Epson inks on Ultra Premium Matte Presentation Paper. This photo will last a lifetime without fading. Available in black and white or sepia tone and in three sizes.
• Train Coloring and Activity Books
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| Duty Bound on the Union Pacific |
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Free Printables, Coloring Pages, Activities, and Crafts:
🚂 Golden Spike Coloring Page
🚂 Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad
🚂 Transcontinental Railroad Resources
🚂 Take the Junior Engineer challenge and begin your adventure today
🚂 26 Best Train Coloring Pages
🚂 Free Union Pacific Coloring Book
🚂 The Great Race to Promontory
🚂 Standard Time: Telling Time on the Railroad
🚂 Virtual Activity Zone at the National Railroad Museum
🚂 Transcontinental Telegraph and Railroad | Lessons, Activities, and Resources
🚂 Operation Lifesaver's activities for kids
🚂 Track Record Fun
🚂 Train Worksheets, Activities, and Crafts
🚂 The Transcontinental Railroad
🚂 Train Printable Worksheets
🚂 First Shapes with Printable Train Tracks
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🚂 Trains Coloring Book
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| We Were There at the Driving of the Golden Spike |
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-- began with a Proclamation 8 years ago by an international steering committee representing lupus organizations from 13 different nations when they met in Eaton, United Kingdom to organize the first observance of World Lupus Day. The Proclamation is a call to action for governments around the world to increase their financial support for lupus research, awareness, and patient services.
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| How to Clean Your Room in 10 Easy Steps |
-- If you've got kids, it is very possible their rooms are a vast wasteland, completely filled with
the good stuff.Get out the shovels. Call in an industrial-sized dumpster. Its time for everyone to clean your rooms!
👪 Clean Your Room Worksheets and Printables
👪 Clean Room Award Children's Certificates
👪 How to Clean Your Room Printable
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| Willie the Windmill |
-- More than 600 of Holland's 1000 windmills fly a blue pennant each year to welcome visitors on National Windmill Days. The event is a chance to visit Amsterdam's working mills, which date back to the 17th and 18th centuries.
🌬️ Windmill Colouring Pages
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