Many Boomers grew up with a toy train set at home. I had to laugh recently when I sold a home for a couple of hilarious senior citizens and discovered the entire basement housed a miniature train set and scenery that the owner built over the years with fake mountains, a town with a gas station, a bank, etc.

The owner found a guy in Denver who came over and bought/trucked the entire thing back to his home before we sold the house.

Utah is famous for a big part of train history in the U.S. In 1869, the rails from the West Coast were connected to the rails of the East Coast at Promontory Summit, in what was then called Utah Territory. On May 10 of that year, a 17.6-karat golden spike was driven in as the last piece of the transcontinental railroad, changing transportation history forever.

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