Comanche Crossing of the Kansas Pacific Railroad - Strasburg, CO
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Outspoken1
N 39° 44.250 W 104° 18.484
13S E 559289 N 4398851
Comanche Crossing (later renamed Strasburg to honor a KP Executive) is the site where the Kansas Pacific Railroad finished laying the tracks that formed the first continuous chain of rails from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast.
Waymark Code: WMN9X2
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 01/27/2015
Views: 5
"Comanche Crossing where the first continuous chain of rails from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean was joined August 15, 1870.
On August 15, 1870, the last 10¼ miles of track were laid by two crews, one working from the east and one from the west in a record-breaking nine hours.
Fifteen months earlier, the golden spike ceremony had been held in Utah, to note the joining by rail of the eastern United States with the west. But the tracks joined at Promontory Summit connected only Omaha and Sacramento in a continuous chain. With the completion of the rails at Strasburg it became possible, at last, to board a train in New York and travel all the way to San Francisco by rail." (from (
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