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English: Southern Pacific Monument (1916) commemorating the driving of the last spike, linking the east coast to the west coast.
Date Taken on 14 October 2016, 09:23:18
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Author Chris Light

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Golden Spike

The last rail is laid the pike is driventhe Pacific Railroad is completed here at Promontory, Utah, at 12.47 P.M. on May 10, 1869. The driving of hte Golden Spike completed the first Transcontinental Railroad climax of a dramatic railroad building race between the Union Pacific building from the east and the Central Pacific building from the west. This event symbolized attainment of a long sought goal - a direct transportation route to the Pacific Ocean and the China trade. And it achieved the Great Political objective of binding together by iron Bonds the extremities of continental United States.A rail link from Ocean to Ocean.

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United States Department of the Interior.

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