So far, there isn't a lot go on, just family stories, old photos and drawings and documents from the railroad's builders. The Chinese Railroad Workers in North America project is piecing together what really happened. Sue Lee, with the Chinese Historical Society of America, said, "This is an attempt to educate people about the importance of the transcontinental, that it joined the country, that it provided a highway, if you will, between east and the west but it was also was a gateway to the orient." Generations of racism and discrimination left the story of the Chinese laborers largely untold - until now. There is not a single letter or journal or even remittance envelope in the hand in one of these workers that has yet surfaced in the U.S. "Their story is hard to tell because they left no written records themselves. "We know very little about who they were, their names even, what they experienced, how they were recruited, how they lived and worked and died on the railroad and what happened to them subsequently," said Chang. Their labor was absolutely key to the railroad being completed," said Fishkin. Second-class passengers, riding in day coaches, had a different time of it.
and it could help move supplies and men in time of war. The Dangers of Riding the Transcontinental Railroad. "We're trying to recover the history of the 10 to 12,000 Chinese who came to America to build the Central Pacific Railroad. Map of Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads as they work to create the Transcontinental. Gordon Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin are looking for answers about the Chinese who worked the railroad. Two researchers at Stanford University are focusing in on them. The Irish, while laying track, decided to 'adjust' the notorious behavior of the Union Pacific Railroad for not paying workers by kidnapping the head of the company, Thomas Durant, and holding him for 'ransom' until they.
What this picture doesn't show are the people who played a huge part in building the railroad. The Union Pacific reached the new railroad town of Cheyenne in December 1867, having laid about 270 miles (430 km) that year. There is another story with the Irish that goes down in the history books when it comes to the transcontinental railroad.
The famous photo was taken to celebrate the linking of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads with the "Golden Spike." of the transcontinental railroad, which reduced the travel time across the. It has been more than 146 years since this group of rail workers gathered in front of two trains at Promontory Summit in Utah. Authorizing the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroad companies to. However many of the people who built it weren't Americans but Chinese, and now there's an effort underway to better tell their story. Early settlers fight for survival Southern tobacco the North becomes a powerhouse of trade tension and taxation explode into revolution. (KGO) - It is an American success story - the linking of the east and west by railroad in the 1860s. Many of the people who built the Transcontinental Railroad weren't Americans but Chinese, and now there's an effort underway to tell their story.
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