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Katie, Nestor and Doug at the actual Golden Spike, Utah, North America

Info stolen from Wikipedia…

Golden Spike National Historic Site is a U.S. National Historic Site located at Promontory Summit, north of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

It commemorates the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad where the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad met on May 10, 1869. The final joining of the rails spanning the continent was signified by the driving of the ceremonial Golden Spike.

The Golden Spike National Historic Site encompasses 2,735 acres
(1,107 ha). In 2002, it received 49,950 visitors. It was authorized as
a National Historic Site on April 2, 1957 under non-federal ownership.
It was authorized for federal ownership and administration by an act of
Congress on July 30, 1965.

In 1978, a general master plan for the site was adopted with the
goal of maintaining the site’s scenic attributes as closely as possible
to its appearance and characteristics in 1869. In 2006, a petition to
the Board on Geographic Names
resulted in a name change for Chinamans Arch, a 20-foot (6.1 m)
limestone arch at Golden Spike NHS. Named Chinaman’s Arch in honor of
the 19th century Chinese
railroad workers, the arch has now been officially renamed as the
Chinese Arch to mollify sensitivities about the original name (which
remains a common usage).