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Grand Trunk Pacific Railway — Last Spike
Photographer: Unknown via British Columbia Archives (Public domain)
Taken: April 7, 1914
Caption: Grand Trunk Pacific Railway — Last Spike
Additional Description: Edson Chamberlain, the railroad's president, drove a standard black iron spike to complete the railroad. The festivities that day included two track laying crews, starting at opposite ends of the last unfinished mile, racing to see who could reach the midpoint first. The eastern crew beat the western crew by a few minutes.
Submitted: December 12, 2021, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Database Locator Identification Number: p627583
File Size: 0.082 Megabytes

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