1 h, may 9, 1869 y - RAILS REACH PROMONTORY SUMMIT
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A month earlier, Congress passed a joint resolution naming Promontory Summit the place “at which rails shall meet and form one continuous line.” By early May, Union Pacific crews had laid the final track from Corinne, Utah, to the Summit. Railroad officials, workers and citizens alike were ready for a celebration, but it would have to wait a little longer. Wet weather, a washed-out bridge and a revolt by unpaid UP railroad workers who threatened to kidnap Thomas Durant (a scheme possibly orchestrated by Durant himself) postponed the ceremony a few extra days.
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