Tuesday, May 10, 2005

May 10, 1869



What was it that the Engines said,
Pilots touching, head to head,
Facing on a single track,
Half a world behind each back?
- Bret Harte

On this date, one hundred and thirty-six years ago, America's greatest engineering feat to date was finished. This feat meant the nation would flower, as at long last East was linked to West.

They would never look back.

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