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At Promontory, Utah, at 12:47 P.M. on May 10, 1869, the driving of a Golden Spike completed the first Transcontinental Railroad. The event marked the climax of a dramatic railroad-building race between the Union Pacific, building from the east, and the Central Pacific, building from the west. It symbolized the attainment of a long-sought goal: a direct transportation route to the Pacific Ocean and the China trade, and it achieved the political objective of binding together the extremities of the continental United States with a rail link from ocean to ocean.
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