Description: The last wagon train; note image juxtaposition of railroad and wagon train in same frame; note that train and wagon are heading OPPOSITE directions. Special train of Governor Stanford, president of the Central Pacific, the JUPITER, and [wagon] train of immigrants bound for California at Monument Point, a few miles west of Promontory, Utah, where the last spike was driven in the first transcontinental railroad on May 10, 1869. See also Library of Congress photo.
See also "Poetry and Prose".
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Type: photo
Subject: Trains - construction
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Source: TDHS Collection
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Notes: Original image is 89.6 MB - huge
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Identifier: TRR0021
Serial Number: 859
Donation: Trains - Construction, Locomotives, Fire (TRR) collection (#10)
