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Comanche Crossing Historical Society & Museum

Formerly/Also Known As Transcontinental Railroad Museum

56060 East Colfax Avenue
Strasburg, CO 80136

(303) 622-4690

info@cchscolorado.com
www.cchscolorado.com

If you think the transcontinental railroad was completed at Promontory Point, Utah, you've been had! While the Utah site is the place where the rails of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads met, the actual completion of the transcontinental line didn't occur until August 15, 1870 in Strasburg, Colorado.

Don't believe me? Read the straight dope from Roadside America.

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Comanche Crossing
The white marker designates the place where the transcontinental railroad actually occurred. Photo © James Quirk/Flickr. Used with permission.



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