Monday, 22 September 2008

Completion of the Californian Railroad

Promontory Summit, Utah - the location where the United States' first Transcontinental Railroad was officially completed on May 10, 1869, with the driving of the Golden Spike, joining the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads. Trains, they're brilliant.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This video clip shows the same thing in more detail, there is a whole series of these clips they seem to cover much of what we have done so far:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6qoblBuS_eo

good history novels, indeed

  • 'Secret History' Donna Tart
  • 'Puck of Pook's Hill' Rudyard Kipling
  • 'The Plot Against America' Philip Roth
  • 'A Star Called Henry' Roddy Doyle
  • 'Redemption Falls' Joseph O'Connor
  • 'Waterland' Graham Swift

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