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Rails West … And East!

by | Feb 7, 2019 | Features & Gunfights

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Union Pacific Railroad photographer Andrew J. Russell’s photo depicting the rail workers toasting champagne and the mixed crowd of dignitaries, engineers, workers and families gathered around Central Pacific Railroad’s Samuel S. Montague (left) and Union Pacific’s Grenville M. Dodge shaking hands at the Golden Spike Ceremony at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory, on May 10, 1869, exudes the exaltation of the transcontinental ra


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