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by | Jan 23, 2020 | Features & Gunfights

In 2019, the biggest history event of the year was the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad at the Golden Spike Ceremony at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory, on May 10, 1869. Union Pacific Railroad photographer Andrew J. Russell took a series of photographs, including this image of the mixed crowd of railroad dignitaries, engineers, workers andfamilies gathered between the Central Pacific and Union


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