Golden Spike

National Historic Site

" The last rails laid, the spike is driven,

The Pacific Railroad is completed."

Here at Promontory, Utah, at 12:47 P.M.

on May 10, 1869. The driving of a

Golden Spike completed the first

transcontinental railroad. Climax of a

dramatic railroad-building race between

...

Golden Spike

A Golden Spike was

driven at this point by

President Harding

on completion of

the Alaska Railroad

July 15 1923

Courtesy hmdb.org