On this day in 1869 “The Golden Spike” was driven at Promontory Point, Utah, completing the first Transcontinental Railroad.
Image and caption provided by www.PBS.org via the National Archives.
Dignitaries and railworkers gather to drive the "golden spike" and join the tracks of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10, 1869. The Central Pacific's wood-burning locomotive, Jupiter, stands to the left, the Union Pacific's coal-burning No. 119 to the right.
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