PROMONTORY SUMMIT, Utah--On May 10, 1869, the extraordinary happened here. After crews from the Central Pacific Railroad had started in Sacramento, Calif., and laid 690 miles of track to the east, and ...

Picture two crews of laborers, swinging sledgehammers under a desert sun, racing toward each other from opposite ends of a continent never crossed by rail. Skeptics back East called it overbuilding.

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On May 10, 1869 a telegraph operator in Promontory Summit, Utah sent the word ‘DONE’ to Washington D.C. The first transcontinental railway was complete. The occasion was marked by the Golden Spike ...

Everything was right on track for the 150-year anniversary of the First Transcontinental Railroad’s completion. Thousands of spectators flocked to Promontory Summit, Utah, on Friday to witness the ...

Performers play the roles of railroad workers during a historical re-enactment to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad, to which thousands of ...

PROMONTORY SUMMIT -- Actors, historians and members of the public are gathering at Promontory Summit to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Golden Spike. Friday's events are the latest in a round ...