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 ...

That derailment and others since inspired nationwide fears about railroad safety. Lawyers and unions representing rail workers say there is an industry-wide pattern of retaliation against workers ...

May also marks the publication of Ghosts of Gold Mountain, a groundbreaking history of Chinese railroad workers by Stanford scholar Gordon H. Chang. Given that the university’s founder ...

Browse a photo gallery of settlers, Native Americans, and workers whose lives were affected by the railroad as it traversed the West.

Tipped off by a long-secret railroad company document, the Watsons searched the woods around Malvern, Pennsylvania, for four and a half years to find “our men” (as they call the workers ...