CPR Meets UPR
10th May 1869: After the last spike of the transcontinental Railroad is driven at Promontory, Utah, the locomotives of the Canadian Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroads were moved forward until pilots touched and locomotives were christened with bottles of wine and champagne. Shaking hands in centre are Montague and Dodge. (Photo by Andrew Joseph Russell/MPI/Getty Images)
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