NEW YORK (PIX11) — Railroads and infrastructure help shape a city and a country. Chinese immigrants had an important role in the creation of the first railroad across the United States. But some ...

EXTENSION ACTIVITY: Students can compare and contrast the Chinese worker experience building the transcontinental railroad with another immigrant group experience. Students could do more research into ...

As many as 20,000 Chinese workers were recruited to build North America’s railways. Their descendants are still fighting for recognition, writes photographer Philip Cheung.

The "Chinese Workers' Experience" exhibit stands on the first floor of the California State Railroad Museum. For Smith, the lessons of this exhibit transcend time.

They were barred from obtaining citizenship, and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 prohibited further immigration, which prevented many railroad workers from reconnecting with their families.

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 ...

MARFA, Texas — What remains of the Chinese immigrants who built the Southern Pacific Railroad through Seminole Canyon in the 1880s are the objects they left behind — opium pipes, rice bowls ...

Chinese immigrant contributions ‘rendered invisible’ Chinese workers made up about 90% of the West Coast Transcontinental Railroad construction workforce, building tunnels through the Sierra ...

The Central Pacific Railroad began laying tracks in 1863. Because of a labor shortage — the white labor pool in California was scarce and unreliable — the company turned to Chinese immigrants.Around ...

But the region was also the site of violent outbursts against the immigrants. In January 1882, 11 Chinese railroad workers in a town outside El Paso were murdered by white colleagues who disguised ...