Transcontinental Railroad celebration. Horsemen,engineers and workers celebrating the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the USA. This celebration took place on 10 May 1869 at Promontory Summit,Utah. The two locomotives are Central Pacific No. 60 (left,the Jupiter) and Union Pacific No. 119 (right). A man on a ladder at right is fixing the telegraph wire. Several hundred people attended the event,which later included a Golden Spike ceremony to complete the railroad (see C011/0526). Photographed by Alfred A. Hart (1816-1908). For an alternative view of the celebrations,see C011/0527 | |
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