Chinese workers made up about 90% of the West Coast Transcontinental Railroad construction workforce, building tunnels through the Sierra Nevada mountains with rudimentary tools.

Sacramento exhibit on Chinese railroad workers shows building blocks of history 01:49. ... The route carved out through the Sierra Nevada is still in use more than 150 years later.

Workers broke through in August, just one year after the vertical shaft had been drilled. Tunnel No. 6 was a truly staggering feat of engineering. It measured 1,659 feet in length, and reached, at ...

The site of the largest camp for Chinese railroad workers in California in the 19th century is one of the country’s newest National Historic Landmarks. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland ...

Actually, 10,000 to 20,000 immigrant Chinese laborers had helped forge the Central Pacific’s path over the Sierra Nevada to its historic 1869 meeting with the Union Pacific.

It is estimated that between 1,000 to 1,200 Chinese workers died due to dangerous working conditions, among them 300 Chinese railroad workers who fell to their deaths during the construction of the ...

GUANGZHOU, China, Nov. 15, 2024 /CNW/ -- News report from GDToday: "This is a journey to seek the 'spikes' that bind. Chinese railroad workers are like the railway spikes firmly connecting China ...

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.

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 ...

The site of the largest camp for Chinese railroad workers in California in the 19th century is one of the country’s newest National Historic Landmarks.. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb ...