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Interesting! I probably would have said 'Promontory Point', also, rather than 'Promontory Summit'. There is seemingly still some confusion about the ceremonial spikes and crosstie. Two seemingly authoritative sources (National Parks Service and Stanford University) even differ in their accounts. See these: http://www.nps.gov/gosp/history/spike.html http://ccva.stanford.edu/spike.html Incidentally, for Kurtconi, above, purely mechanical and/or chemical techniques for plating gold on base metals have been around for over a thousand years. Electroplating is obviously only a couple of hundred years old. Dave Fleming
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