DCHP-3

Golden Spike

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a golden spike used in the ceremony of driving the last spike of a railway line.

Quotations

1928
So high was enthusiasm and confidence that there is said to have been a proposal that the Golden Spike be driven at the beginning [of the Hudson Bay Railway] rather than at the finish.
1958
It's your year . . . to see the Golden Spike re-enactment at Craigellachie. . . .