They were disappointed and very upset that the Chinese railroad workers didn’t get their due, she recalled. This time around, Yu, whose great-grandfather was a foreman for the Central Pacific ...

Construction of the Central Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific Railroad ... In the 20th century, Ogden’s logo read, “You can’t get anywhere without coming to Ogden.” C-SPAN’s Local ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leland Stanford, president of Southern Pacific Railroad and, beginning in 1861, Central Pacific Railroad, drove the golden spike. Stanford also served as a Republican governor and senator from ...

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 ...

Mark Hopkins mansion: bigger than your house [Photo: SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY] The Central Pacific Railroad, the western portion of the First Transcontinental ...

Editor’s note: This is part two of a series on completion of the transcontinental railroad. See the first part at http://bit.ly/2Vp2ddU. The Central Pacific broke ...