usa postage stamp transcontinental train

The U.S. Post Office issued a postage stamp in 1944 commemorating the 75th anniversary of the first transcontinental railroad in America. The engraving depicts the driving of the ‘Golden Spike’ at Promontory, Utah, where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads came together in 1869.

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