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  2. Golden spike - Wikipedia

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    The original "golden spike", on display at the Cantor Arts Museum at Stanford University. The golden spike (also known as The Last Spike [1]) is the ceremonial 17.6-karat gold final spike driven by Leland Stanford to join the rails of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento and the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha on ...

  3. Northern Pacific Railroad Completion Site, 1883 - Wikipedia

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    August 19, 1983. The Northern Pacific Railroad Completion Site is the location of the golden spike ceremony for the completion of the Northern Pacific Railway (NP) in 1883. The site is located near Gold Creek in Powell County, Montana off of Interstate 90, [2] approximately 59 miles (95 km) southeast of Missoula and 40 miles (64 km) west of ...

  4. Jupiter (locomotive) - Wikipedia

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    Jupiter. (locomotive) The Jupiter (officially known as Central Pacific Railroad #60) was a 4-4-0 steam locomotive owned by the Central Pacific Railroad. It made history when it joined the Union Pacific No. 119 at Promontory Summit, Utah, during the golden spike ceremony commemorating the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869.

  5. David Hewes - Wikipedia

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    He provided a golden spike marking completion of the railroad and he also planned the connection of the railroad company's wires to Western Union so the taps of the silver hammer driving the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory could be heard instantaneously coast-to-coast. Hewes as portrayed in the Los Angeles Times, August 23, 1913

  6. The search for the Golden Spike: Scientists make ‘significant ...

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    For the past 20 years, scientists have argued that Earth has left behind the Holocene – a relatively stable period in the planet’s 4.5 billion-year history that lasted for 11,7000 years since ...

  7. Amédée Joullin - Wikipedia

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    Amédée Joullin. Driving the Golden Spike, oil on canvas, 1903. Montana State Capitol, Helena, Montana. Commemorates the “golden spike” driven at Gold Creek, Montana in 1883. Amédée Joullin (3 June 1862, in San Francisco – 3 February 1917, in San Francisco) was a French American painter whose work centered on the landscapes of ...

  8. Golden Spike unveils ambitious plans for $1.5 billion trips ...

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    Today, the newly formed Golden Spike Company took the wraps off of an exceedingly ambitious plan that would eventually see pairs of citizens hoisted up to the moon for a cool $1.5 billion. Before ...

  9. Lang Southern Pacific Station - Wikipedia

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    Opened. 1876; 148 years ago. ( 1876) Closed. 1969; 55 years ago. ( 1969) Lang Southern Pacific Station is a former Southern Pacific railway station located in Soledad Canyon near the eastern end of Santa Clarita, California. On September 5, 1876, the first railway to Los Angeles was completed at this site.

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