full-spiked

Updated: June 4, 2025

There are eighteen ties and thirty-six spikes to every rail, three hundred and fifty-two rails to every mile, and eighteen hundred miles from Omaha to San Francisco those sledges will swing sixty-eight million times before the rails are full-spiked they have to go fast." The words were hardly out of the chief spiker's mouth when a cry of alarm rang from the front.

Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman - The Mountain Divide