for Old Town Newhall Association's Night Under the Stars Sept. 13 for SCVTV.com • Local Television for Santa Clarita
for Old Town Newhall Association's Night Under the Stars Sept. 13 for SCVTV.com • Local Television for Santa Clarita
Golden Spike Celebration, 1926
Lang Station
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Railroad enthusiasts and history buffs turned out en force on Sept. 5, 1926, for the 50th anniversary celebration of the driving of the golden spike that united northern and southern California by rail at Lang Station in today's Canyon Country, just east of the modern Shadow Pines exit off of state Route 14. A modern Southern Pacific engine was outfitted with a smokestack and renumbered No. 38 for the occasion, the same number borne by the 10-wheel engine that lumbered south from Tehachapi 50 years earlier to meet the eight-wheel engine No. 25 that was coming north from Los Angeles. For the golden anniversary celebration, some revelers donned cowboy and Indian garb.
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