The three spikes that united the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869, are now on display at Joslyn Art Museum. For the first time in almost 150 years, the “crown ...
Brigham City • When two railroads met at northern Utah’s Promontory Summit in 1869, the country was joined from coast to coast for the first time — a connection sealed by a final spike, commonly known ...