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Golden Spike National Historic Site

Promontory, Utah

The site of an annual reenactment of the meeting of the two railroads that ultimately formed the first transcontinental railway system. In 1869 an ordinary iron spike was driven into a regular railroad tie. The original steam engines were scrapped for iron. In 1942 the old rails over the Promontory Point Summit were salvaged for war efforts.


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