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Transcontinental Railroad Link Completed at Promontory Point
A century and a half ago on May 10 1869 at Promontory Point Utah the Union Pacific and Central Pacific joined to complete the first transcontinental railroad The event marked a pivotal national achievement and honored engineer Grenville Dodge and other railroad builders with a ceremony featuring a golden spike and a silver tie inscription reflecting the momentous union of east and west rail networks.
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Utah
Grenville M. Dodge
Bobbs-Merrill
G. M. Dodge
J. R. Perkins
Historical, Memorial and Art Department of
Iowa
Old Bay State
Dodge
Massachusetts
Richard Dodge
Salem
Danvers
Lander
Frederick
Charles
Norwich University
Wenham Lake
Eastern
Frederick Lander
Norwich
Atlantic
Pacific
Chicago
Peru
Rock Island Railroad
Prairie
Illinois Central
Rock Island
Mississippi
Davenport
Ionna
Council Bluffs
Abraham Lincoln
Missouri
Lincoln
United States
Union P Pacific Railroad
Lower
Upper
Congress
Republican River
Platte River
Nebraska
Doge
Georgia
Grant
Union Pacific
General Dodge
West
Central Pacific Railway Company
California
Central Pacific
Sierras
Cape Horn
Panama
Promontory Point
Thomas Durant
Council Bluf’s
Fort Douglas
Salt Lake
San Francisco
Boston
Rio Grande
Dixie
Jack Casement
Eagar Mills
Mr. Todd
Pittsfield
Doctor Harkness
Sacramento
Pacific Railroad
Stanford
Trittle
Nevada
Woe
Pacific Union Express Company
Reed
Strawbridge