PROMONTORY SUMMIT -- Actors, historians and members of the public are gathering at Promontory Summit to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike. Friday's events are the latest in a round ...
PROMONTORY SUMMIT, Utah--On May 10, 1869, the extraordinary happened here. After crews from the Central Pacific Railroad had started in Sacramento, Calif., and laid 690 miles of track to the east, and ...
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On May 10, 1869 the US was joined from coast to coast by a transcontinental railroad when the final spike was driven into the rails at a ceremony at Promontory Summit in the Utah Territory. Although ...
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