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First Transcontinental Train

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Don's Java botique

About this artifact

The train pictured is the Jupiter which carried Leland Stanford, one of the "big four" owners of the Central Pacific, and other railway officials to the Golden Spike Ceremony. Indians watch from atop the hill overlooking the train.

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