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2026-09-26

The handshake that ended a race

Colorized Past
Colorized Past@George Reiner
Andrew J. Russell, the Union Pacific's official photographer, made this exposure at Promontory Summit, Utah, on May 10, 1869, minutes after the golden spike closed the first transcontinental railroad. Samuel Montague, chief engineer of the Central Pacific, shakes hands with his Union Pacific counterpart Grenville Dodge, between the locomotives Jupiter and No. 119. More than 12,000 Chinese workers built the Central Pacific across the Sierra Nevada, and they are not in the picture that has been reprinted ever since. 1234

References

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    Wikimedia Commons — East and West Shaking Hands at the Laying of Last Rail

    commons.wikimedia.org

  2. 2
    National Park Service — Andrew J. Russell, Golden Spike National Historical Park

    nps.gov

  3. 3
    National Park Service — The Archeology of Chinese Laborers Who Connected the Country

    nps.gov

  4. 4
    Gilder Lehrman Institute — Official photograph from the Golden Spike ceremony, 1869

    gilderlehrman.org

Colorized Past
Colorized Past@George Reiner

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