Sacramento to Promontory
[2023-10-20 16:18:49]
Of all the events that formed our country in the 19th century, there were few events that happened on May 10, 1869. That day, when the railroads of the Pacific and Central Allied railroads became the dream of a transcontinental railroad on that day, it became a reality. At last the Pacific railroad met at the Promontory Summit in Utah. This event, which began with the signing of the Pacific Railroad Act by President Abraham Lincoln on July 1, 1862, was characterized by the driving of gold nails and completed this line.
The road to the summit talks is tough, dangerous and competitive. In late April 1869, the Chubu Pacific region with Irish and Chinese workers created ten miles and 56 feet trucks in 12 hours in Roselle, Utah. This result started with a bet by the Pacific Alliance. There, the person in charge of Pacific Pacific completed a 7 - mile track over the course of time (although it was far beyond normal work and completed work from 4 AM until midnight). ) At that time, the San Francisco Communiqué called the feat the "largest railroad work done or thought done by railway staff". A powerful military commander monitoring the progress of workers and soldiers commented that he had never seen such an organization and said, "It is a military that marches on the ground and leaves a path behind them It was like. "
There was enough time to identify the location of the meeting, but Congress finally passed a joint resolution, just one month before completion. The name is taken from the corner of the sea which extends south of the Great Salt Lake. By early May, the staff of Union Pacific had already made the final track from Colin Utah to the summit. Railway officials, workers, and citizens are ready to celebrate. However, the ceremony was postponed for several days due to rain, the bridge that was dissolved, and the unpaid workers' unpaid workers at Union Pacific Railroad, threatened to kidnap the company's vice president Thomas Durant (carefully Durant himself). Planned plan). )
But on May 10, the railroad met, became a country united in the coastal area. Dozens of VIPs, railway managers, and reporters have witnessed this big event. The San Francisco newspaper "Daily Alta California" of the 19th century wrote the next day. "In the face of the natural obstacle of the most difficult role, the coast of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific are finally united by railroad crossing the railroad ... ... From now on, we are in an alliance, So the wonderful events of this era finally put us all back home. "
Today, the Cape Summit has the Golden Naniel National Historical Monument. In 1870, the first intersection of the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad was transferred to the nearby Ogden. Cape is mainly a helper station, mainly railroad workers and their families.
Visualization - Please check the last nail driving photos in Promontory in Utah. This is the last link to the Transcontinental railroad. Please put yourself in this picture and imagine that you were a journalist of Sacramento and witnessed the memorial. Where are you taking pictures? Who stands beside you? how is the weather? A crowd came, a celebrity is giving a speech, and celebrations have begun. Please report the scene and your feelings. You start interviewing with other people: who are they, what are their reactions, and why are they involved?
The Promontory event shows the completion of a transcontinental railway, but it does not actually indicate the completion of a seamless coastal rail network. Sacramento and Omaha are not harbors. It is the end point. The Mosdale Bridge is the last section of the San Joaquin River near Las Ropp, California and will eventually be connected to Sacramento, California, September 1869. Until the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge was built in 1872, I was asked to travel to the Missouri River between Council Bluffs, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska. At the same time, coastal to coastal rail connections were achieved in Au