The Transcontinental Railroad was completed on May 10, 1869, linking the eastern and western United States by rail for the ...
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Officers and directors of Union Pacific at the laying of the last rail, Promontory Summit, Utah, May 10, 1869. Image taken by Andrew Russell. It’s very rare that we can say a nation was fundamentally ...
Plate 227, "East and West shaking hands at laying of the last rail," Promontory Summit, Utah. Photograph was taken by Andrew Russell on May 10, 1869. General Dodge, chief engineer for Union Pacific, ...
This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). On 10 May 1869, history was hammered into the ground in Promontory, Utah. Shortly after noon on a sunny spring day, hundreds of ...