"Does not such a meeting make amends?" / FB.

Print shows an allegory of linking of Trans-Continental railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah; Indians and buffalo fleeing in the foreground as two trains with large hands extending from the locomotives, labeled "San Francisco" and "New York", approach each other to connect the transcontinental railroad.

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, v. 28, no. 713 (1869 May 29), p. 176.
Possibly by Frank Beard.
Accompanied by article, "Opening of the Pacific railway: Inter-oceanic railway communication generally, ..." which discusses how the economic cost of the railway will be offset by savings in shipping and increased speed of cummunication.