Promontory Point's 'Arizona Spike' railroad spike sells for $2.2 million at auction

Hundreds of rail workers, politicians, railway executives and curious onlookers gathered in Promontory Point, Utah on May 10, 1869, to watch four railmen drive the final four spikes into railroad ties, marking the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad in North America.At the time, it was like putting a man on the moon — the culmination of more than 20 years of

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