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May 10, 1869 — He missed the spike, they hammered history home in Utah

May 10, 1869 — He missed the spike, they hammered history home in Utah

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Thousands of immigrant workers built the transcontinental railroad, and when the ceremonial moment arrived on May 10, 1869, it was a regular track worker — not the corporate leader — who hammered the final golden spike home. He recounts how those men swung heavy hammers and blasted through solid rock, pushing tracks east and west under brutal winters, avalanches, and deadly explosions. He notes the Irish laborers driving west from Nebraska and the Chinese laborers pushing east from California, a relentless, dangerous back-and-forth that finally met in Utah. He paints the scene of a corporate leader raising a silver hammer, missing the spike, and the unglamorous heroism of the worker who finished the job.

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