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I he companies finally agreed to meet at the shack town of Promontory. The ceremony, a historian reported, was a “scene of low comedy” where “oratory and whisky flowed in about equal amounts.”
A raucous audience of crewmen and spectators greeted the customary speeches. Then a golden spike-now enshrined at Stanford University - was inserted into a hole punched in a tie of California laurel. Central' Pacific’s Leland Stanford swung a silver sledge at the spike - and missed.
The rowdy mob roared with rude laughter.
Union Pacific’s Thomas C. Durant took his turn at the sledge - and missed. The heckling grew louder.
More experienced hands finally drove the spike into place. As everyone cheered, the Union Pacific’s Pullman No. 119 and Central Pacific’s Jupiter touched cowcatchers over the spike, uniting the coasts.
More than 100,000 watts of electricity and 22 miles of cable are required to illuminate Luray Caverns, Va.
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