There’s a really big spike just a stone’s throw from our museum right now! As part of a special Jupiter Tour, a giant Golden Spike Monument that is over 43 feet long and weighing 8,000 pounds will be on special display all day Saturday, April 27th, outside the Sacramento History Museum and the California State Railroad Museum in Old Sacramento! Old Sacramento is one of the Driving of the Spike “whistle stops” for the commissioned public art piece, created by sculptor Douwe Blumberg in 2021, that has traveled from Utah to Sacramento and and will travel back with a mission to recognize the contributions of railroad workers of the Central Pacific Railroad. The monument was designed to celebrate the power and diversity of those whose labor and sacrifices contributed to building the nation’s first Transcontinental Railroad. Construction of the Transcontinental Railroad began at the foot of K Street in Sacramento in January 1863. Come by and see the spike in-person for one day only before i...