Extra Credit Questions

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I'm still thinking something to do with the railroads. That fellow with the WWI helmet makes me think more about head gear worn by those who worked with mining and dynamiting their way through mountains -- and the railroad crews did a lot of that!

Gene, could the other figure to the right be Chinese? Those folks did a lot of work on that transcontinental.

Also, weren't there three separate companies (at least) involved in that tremendous feat? Uniion Pacific gets a lot of press, but there was a Central Pacific element that I think got behind schedule or something?

As you can see, I'm stabbing in the dark, but the railroads just keep blowing their horns at me.

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OK, I cheated -- and forget my railroad guess. By jove, I believe our man down under is correct about the piece representing the creation of the Arizona Territory. Go here: https://www.dcourier.com/news/2015/feb/1...the-arizo/

I still want to know the meaning of an "organic act" and also what the two figures represent.