Harper's Weekly reported on the progress of the transcontinental railroad throughout its construction ... a certain fascination. In the main building were several locomotives of immense power ...

July 1: Congress passes and Lincoln signs the Pacific Railroad Bill. The document endorses Central Pacific efforts to build the California line while simultaneously chartering a Union Pacific ...

The role that Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad has long been buried. 150 years after the completion of the tracks, that’s finally changing. In the celebratory ...

Monica Yeung Arima stands in front of the “Chinese and the Iron Road — Building the Transcontinental Railroad” exhibit on her front porch in Palo Alto on May 16, 2023. Photo by Sue Dremann.

3. Denise Khor, “Railroad Frames: Landscapes and the Chinese Railroad Worker in Photography, 1865–1869,” in The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad, ed. Gordon Chang and ...

They performed the most arduous and dangerous work despite racism, lower pay than white workers, curtailed food rations, and threats of violence from white railroad bosses. But in the famous 1869 ...

Macdonald also wanted eastern manufacturers to build the machinery the western ... tied together by his pet project - the great transcontinental railroad. Macdonald won the 1878 election and ...

It also explores the role of women and Chinese workers in building the transcontinental railroad. There are also exhibits on toy trains and the world of model railroading. Following recent line ...

There are two theories behind the catfish pond. The first involves Chinese laborers who were building the transcontinental railroad back in the 1860s and 1870s. “The Chinese spent, like ...

which was focused on blasting and building tunnels through the Sierra Nevada mountains as part of the transcontinental railroad. “The importance of preserving and recognizing our cultural ...