WATCH: Thousands gather in Utah for 150th anniversary of railroad

Some 15,000 people were expected to gather Friday at the Golden Spike National Historic Park, a remote spot in the Utah desert where the final spikes were hammered into the ground 150 years ago to mark the finish of the nearly 1,800-mile Transcontinental Railroad line.

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