Transcontinetal Railroad

It's the 150 anniversary of the Transcontinetal Railroad being completed

at Promotory Point, Utah on May 10, 1869. This is a big event here as you can probably imagine. I used to go on field trips out to the Point back when schools did that. I have a replica of the Golden Spike that was used to complete the joining of the tracks.

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Two big boys hitched together to pull an especially heavy load of 90 cars in 1958