On May 10, 1869, the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed after nearly six years of construction, making travel and trade between the east and west coast easier than ever before. Take a ...

Residents from California and Utah on Sunday hiked 10 miles of the first transcontinental railroad that was built on April 28, 1869, to commemorate the record-breaking feat of the workers.

• “Working on the Railroad: Chinese Workers and America’s First Transcontinental Line,” Wednesday, May 8, 7 p.m. — Drawing on years of research, Gordon Chang — the Olive H. Palmer ...

Chinese immigrants sacrificed to create America's first transcontinental railroad. Its completion may have contributed to a backlash that led to the first major immigration clampdown in U.S. history.

Instead, in the 1860s, teams of Chinese labourers blasted through the granite and painstakingly hand-chiselled 15 shafts through the Sierra Nevada so that the first transcontinental railroad could ...

An exhibit commemorating one of the most significant developments in the settlement of the West and Chinese Americans’ contributions to it is on display this week on the porch of longtime Palo ...

First US Transcontinental Railroad - The Golden Spike celebration Ceremony linking the Central Pacific Railroad with the Union Pacific Railroad, Weber Canyon, at Promontory Point, Utah, May 10th 1869.

Visionary executive William Barstow Strong led the second transcontinental line, the Santa Fe, in the 1880s, paving the way for thousands of miles of track. Illustration by Matthew Richardson When ...

A memorial to the Chinese immigrants who worked to build the transcontinental railroad is set to be placed on the southeast lawn of the Utah State Capitol. State Sen. Karen Kwan, the first Chinese ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A 43-foot-tall Golden Spike that was brought to Utah on Monday will honor tens of thousands of workers who built the transcontinental railroad. The nearly 8,000-pound ...