First, it was at the local and state levels ... wall still standing that Chinese workers built for the transcontinental railroad. Locals have named it "the China Wall.") Central Pacific Railroad ...

to join the Central Pacific to the Union Pacific and complete the country’s first transcontinental railroad, the news electrified the country.* A single word dispatched by telegram to the newspa ...

Railroads and infrastructure help shape a city and a country. Chinese immigrants had an important role in the creation of the ...

Two railroad companies had spent six years on one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects of the 19th century: the construction of the first transcontinental railroad. One company had built ...

1869, in Promontory, Utah, the final spike (also known as the Golden Spike) was driven into the ground. That spike joined the rail lines of would become the country’s first Transcontinental ...