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 ...

In the 1860s, it was the largest and longest-occupied camp for Chinese laborers who played an indispensable role in ...

We have bled, and we have died, building and sustaining America,” said Kwan, 57, president of the Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association, which aims to give their forefathers their due.

Hundreds of Chinese workers blasted and built tunnels through the Sierra Nevada as part of the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s. Summit Camp was the largest and longest-occupied camp of ...

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

Truckee sits in the basin underneath the Sierra Nevada peaks where Chinese rail workers had painstakingly built tunnels to allow passage for the transcontinental railroad (see Part 1 of this story).

Recently arrived at a one-room museum on Mount Tamalpais is a freshly milled length of laurel tree cut to the dimensions of a railroad tie. A bronze plaque identifies it as a re-creation of the ...