“We certainly want to honor the Chinese laborers and give recognition to their unfair treatment,” said Leslie Crossland, Golden Spike’s superintendent. “Clearly the Transcontinental Railroad would not ...

American history classes typically teach that the original transcontinental railroad was a major triumph. What they don‘t say ...

The Railroad That Changed America Forever Posted: March 14, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025 May 10, 1869 - A golden spike was driven, marking the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad.

When the signal from the spike came through, the cannons fired. The world was put on notice: the transcontinental railroad was completed and America was moving to the forefront of the world's stage.

Beginning May 10, on the transcontinental ... transcontinental railroad,” says Smithsonian curator Peter Liebhold. The reassessment continues during Utah’s yearlong Spike 150 celebration ...

Nearly 150 years after the Golden Spike in Promontory Summit, Utah, completed this nation’s first transcontinental railroad, America’s freight railroad industry remains an emblem of innovation ...

One wall features a large-scale black-and-white photo of the Golden Spike Ceremony in 1869 when the first transcontinental railroad was completed. One of the trains in the photo was made by the Rogers ...