By Jody Meacham, Reporter, Silicon Valley Business Journal; May 10, 2019
A century and a half ago today, a golden spike was driven into a railroad crosstie at Promontory, Utah, which completed the first rail link across the United States.
Travel time from the East Coast to the nation’s 19-year-old state of California was slashed from months to six days.
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