page_title: Promontory, Utah
hierarchical_section_title: Promontory, Utah
caption_attribution_description: العربية: حفل طرق المسمار الذهبي في قمَّة پرومونتوري، بِولاية يوتاه الأمريكيَّة يوم 10 أيَّار (مايو) 1869؛ بِمُناسبة إتمام أوَّل سكَّة حديدية مُمتدَّة عبر القارَّة الأمريكيَّة الشماليَّة. يظهر في مركز اليسار، صموئيل س. مونتاگيو، مُدير هيئة سكك حديد وسط المُحيط الهادئ، وهو يُصافح گرينڤيل م. دودج، مُدير هيئة سكك حديد اتحاد المُحيط الهادئ (مركز اليمين). English: The ceremony for the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869; completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad. At center left, Samuel S. Montague, Central Pacific Railroad, shakes hands with Grenville M. Dodge, Union Pacific Railroad (center right). Español: Ceremonia de colocación del clavo de oro que completaba la construcción del ferrocarril transcontinental de los Estados Unidos en Promontory (Utah), el 10 de mayo de 1869. En el centro de la imagen aparecen estrechándose las manos los directivos de las dos compañías que colaboraron y compitieron en la construcción de la línea: Samuel S. Montague de la Central Pacific y Grenville M. Dodge de la Union Pacific.
context_page_description: Promontory is an area of high ground in Box Elder County, Utah, 32 mi west of Brigham City and 66 mi northwest of Salt Lake City. Rising to an elevation of 4,902 feet above sea level, it lies to the north of the Promontory Mountains and the Great Salt Lake. It is notable as the location of Promontory Summit, where the First Transcontinental Railroad from Sacramento to Omaha in the United States was officially completed on May 10, 1869.
  By the summer of 1868, the Central Pacific had completed the first rail route through the Sierra Nevada mountains, and was now moving down towards the Interior Plains and the Union Pacific line. More than 4,000 workers, of whom two thirds were Chinese, had laid more than 100 mi of track at altitudes above 7,000 ft. In May 1869, the railheads of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads finally met at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory. A specially-chosen Chinese and Irish crew had taken only 12 hours to lay the final 10 mi of track in time for the ceremony.
context_section_description: Promontory is an area of high ground in Box Elder County, Utah, 32 mi (51 km) west of Brigham City and 66 mi (106 km) northwest of Salt Lake City. Rising to an elevation of 4,902 feet (1,494 m) above sea level, it lies to the north of the Promontory Mountains and the Great Salt Lake. It is notable as the location of Promontory Summit, where the First Transcontinental Railroad from Sacramento to Omaha in the United States was officially completed on May 10, 1869.
  By the summer of 1868, the Central Pacific (CP) had completed the first rail route through the Sierra Nevada mountains, and was now moving down towards the Interior Plains and the Union Pacific (UP) line. More than 4,000 workers, of whom two thirds were Chinese, had laid more than 100 mi (160 km) of track at altitudes above 7,000 ft (2,100 m). In May 1869, the railheads of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroads finally met at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory. A specially-chosen Chinese and Irish crew had taken only 12 hours to lay the final 10 mi (16 km) of track in time for the ceremony.
caption: Andrew J. Russell's picture recording the meeting of the First Transcontinental Railroad
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