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 ...

The South Pacific Coast Railroad Route, which debuted in 1880, could take passengers from Alameda to Santa ... Fair’s “vision” was to compete with the big train lines — namely the Central Pacific and ...

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The methods of hydraulic mining have been employed with great success in clearing away the heavy slides of earth which occurred recently on the Central Pacific Railway above Alta. View Full Articl ...

Two companies — the Central Pacific Railroad Company and the Union Pacific Railroad — were tasked with the construction of the first transcontinental railroad. The project was a competitive ...

On May 10, 1869, crews from the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads met at desolate Promontory Summit, in northern Utah, and completed the Transcontinental Railroad. As the famous ...

On this day in 1869, workers for the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads drove a golden spike into the rails at Promontory Summit, Utah. The event marked completion of the first ...

PROMONTORY SUMMIT, Utah--On May 10, 1869, the extraordinary happened here. After crews from the Central Pacific Railroad had started in Sacramento, Calif., and laid 690 miles of track to the east ...

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 ...