The Pacific Railroad will [soon] realize its advantages. . . . The day is not far distant when three tracks will . . . accommodate the commerce which will seek transit across this continent. Freights will then move . . . at rates of speed that will answer the demand of cheapness and time.
—Leland Stanford
Promontory Summit, Utah
May 10, 18691
Leland Stanford, eighth governor of California and later U.S. Senator from that state, was also president of both the Central Pacific and the Southern Pacific Railroads. In that last capacity, on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah, he drove the golden spike joining the existing eastern railroad network with the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads, creating the ...
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