{"id":4711,"date":"2026-05-10T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4711"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:50:02","slug":"transcontinental-railroad-completed-in-1869","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4711","title":{"rendered":"Transcontinental Railroad Completed in 1869"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Transcontinental railroad was finished in Promontory, Utah, in 1869<\/strong>. The Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad met at<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcrr.com\/Golden-Spike-wiki.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"304\" \/> Promontory Point. Leland Stanford drove in a golden spike to mark the completion of the rail lines. The spike was removed and preserved for history. Idea: Children\u00a0could read more about the difficulties of the two train companies as they built the railroad lines. A good source of information is William Durbin\u2019s <em>The Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcontinental railroad was finished in Promontory, Utah, in 1869. The Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad met at Promontory Point. Leland Stanford drove in a golden spike to mark the completion of the rail lines. The spike was removed and preserved for history. Idea: Children\u00a0could read more about the difficulties of the two <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4711' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4723,1963,1964,5528,1961,1960,1962,87],"class_list":["post-4711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4723","tag-central-pacific-railroad","tag-leland-stanford","tag-may-10","tag-promontory","tag-transcontinental-railroad","tag-union-pacific-railroad","tag-utah","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4711"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29471,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions\/29471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}