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Golden Spike — Big Fill / Big Trestle Grade

Promontory, UT

Competing railroad crews built an enormous earth fill and timber trestle almost side by side while racing toward completion. The preserved grade can be explored on the park's backcountry route.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/gosp/index.htm

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