The Golden Spike at Promontory Summit
“Promontory Summit, Utah, May 10, 1869. Two locomotives meet nose to nose on a single track, the Jupiter from the west and Number 119 from the east. Workers, soldiers, surveyors, and officials in top hats crowd the rails while Leland Stanford raises a maul over the golden spike. The Wasatch Range fills the horizon under a high blue sky.”
