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2. Golden spike - Wikipedia

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   The original "golden spike", on display at the Cantor Arts Museum at Stanford University. The Golden Spike (also known as The Last Spike [1]) is the ceremonial 17.6-karat gold final spike driven by Leland Stanford to join the rails of the first transcontinental railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento and the Union Pacific Railroad from Omaha on ...

3. Golden Spike National Historical Park - Wikipedia

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   National Park Service map of Golden Spike National Historical Park. The Golden Spike National Historical Park encompasses 2,735 acres (1,107 ha). Initially just 7 acres (2.8 ha) when it was established in 1957, limited to the area near the junction of the two rail systems, the site was expanded by 2,176 acres (881 ha) in 1965 through land swaps and acquisition of approximately a strip of land ...

4. Jupiter (locomotive) - Wikipedia

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   Jupiter. (locomotive) The Jupiter (officially known as Central Pacific Railroad #60) was a 4-4-0 steam locomotive owned by the Central Pacific Railroad. It made history when it joined the Union Pacific No. 119 at Promontory Summit, Utah, during the golden spike ceremony commemorating the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869.

5. The search for the Golden Spike: Scientists make ‘significant ...

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   For the past 20 years, scientists have argued that Earth has left behind the Holocene – a relatively stable period in the planet’s 4.5 billion-year history that lasted for 11,7000 years since ...

6. Promontory, Utah - Wikipedia

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   Golden Spike National Historic Site. Promontory is an area of high ground in Box Elder County, Utah, United States, 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. [2]

7. Omaha Storm Chasers - Wikipedia

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   Fans and team officials voted to rebrand as the Omaha Golden Spikes beginning with the 1999 seasons. [34] The name was a reference to the golden spike driven at Promontory Summit, Utah, to celebrate the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869.

8. Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point - Wikipedia

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   The 'golden spike' marking the Ediacaran GSSP. A Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP), sometimes referred to as a golden spike, is an internationally agreed upon reference point on a stratigraphic section which defines the lower boundary of a stage on the geologic time scale. The effort to define GSSPs is conducted by the ...

9. Arizona Eastern Railway - Wikipedia

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   The locomotive was the Central Pacific locomotive that met with Union Pacific No. 119 at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869, for the driving of the golden spike, commemorating the completion of the First transcontinental railroad. Despite its historical significance, in 1909 the GVGN, by then controlled by Central Pacific successor Southern ...