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10 Mile Day
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- The Bet
- The Central Pacific can do ten!
- October 26, 1868Union Pacific sets new record of 7 miles 1,800 feet
- nuh-uh
- The Ten Mile Day
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- Lunch Break
- Lunch time!
- After the Union and Central Pacific started constructing transcontinental railroad, they began to compete over who could lay the most track in a day. Charles Crocker, Central Pacific construction boss, claimed his company could lay 10 miles in 1 day. Dr. Thomas C. Durant, vice president of the Union Pacific, bet $10,000 that they could not.
- The Pioneer Train
- After gathering 1,400 workers, Crocker began the Ten Mile Day. The Chinese and other workers of the Central Pacific railroad company worked long hours throughout the day, becoming very tired and hungry.
- The Pioneer Train
- At 1:30 p.m. the whistle sounded, calling for a lunch break. After a quick measurement of the six miles of track laid, they named their rest stop Camp Victory.
- The Golden Spike
- Camp Victory
- Whirlwind No. 62 (The Pioneer Train locomotive) pushed the kitchen cars down the railroad, serving boiled beef. The Pioneer Train was like a town on wheels. It consisted of the Strobridges' house, the boarding house with multiple sleeping quarters for the workers, and kitchen cars.
- The last car on the train was James and Hannah Strobridge's home and office. Hannah Strobridge was known as the "Heroine of the Central." James Strobridge was Crocker's right-hand man.
- Leland Stanford who was the president of the Central Pacific, Thomas Durant, and others tapped four spikes, two made of gold, into the final pair of rails. This connected the Union and Central Pacific.
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