David Kilton visited Promontory Summit, the site where the golden spike was struck completing construction on the Transcontinental Railroad. Construction of the Central Pacific Railroad and Union ...

In 1869, the founder of the Central Pacific — whose labor force was almost 90 percent Chinese — claimed his men could lay down 10 miles of track in one day. IE 11 is not supported.

The Central Pacific Railroad, the company that built the western portion of the railroad, employed more than 10,000 Chinese laborers. Rose Wong / for NBC News. April 22, 2019, 11:26 AM EDT.

Railroad officials and employees celebrate the completion of the first railroad transcontinental link in Prementory, Utah, on May 10, 1869. The Union Pacific's Locomotive No. 119 (right) and ...

At Promontory Summit, Utah, the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad met on May 10, 1869 after 1,776 miles of track had been laid over six years. Where the Transcontinental ...

Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the Canton Province began arriving on California's shores in 1850, pushed by poverty and overpopulation from their homeland — and ...

The Central Pacific Railroad, the western portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States, was constructed between 1863 and 1869.