FIRST TRANSCONTINENTAL RAIL LINE JOINED

By Gerry Lestz
Published on May 1, 1978
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Photo from Union Pacific Railroad Museum Collection. For a booklet about the line, ''A Brief History,'' write to Advertising Department, Union Pacific Railroad, Omaha, Nebraska 68102.

Workers of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads are
shown in this historic photograph as they joined in a champagne
hoisting ceremony after the Golden Spike was driven at Promontory,
Utah, on May 10, 1869. This event marked the completion of the
first transcontinental rail line in the United States. The
locomotive at the left is the ‘Jupiter’ of the Central

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