Meeting of the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory Point Utah

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Meeting of the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad
at Promontory Point Utah

… As the Union Pacific had already built further West, the two railroads met at Promontory on May 10, 1869. A new frontier was broken on this day and it would take America a hundred years to achieve a step of equal significance.

In a ceremony headed by Leland Stanford for the Central Pacific and Thomas Durant for the Union Pacific, a golden spike was driven into the frame that held the rail which connected the two coasts of the American nation. Incidentally, Leland Stanford …

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