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 ...

In a creative departure, the artist Kenneth Tam spent the last year creating sculptures that honor the lives of Chinese laborers in Texas who helped build the country’s railroad system.

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 ...

What Archaeologists Are Learning About the Lives of the Chinese Immigrants Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad In the sparse Utah desert, the vital contributions of these 19th-century laborers ...

These Chinese immigrants opened the doors to the American West As many as 20,000 Chinese workers were recruited to build North America’s railways. Their descendants are still fighting for ...

Chinese workers made up 90% of the West Coast railroad workforce, but their contributions are often “rendered invisible,” former state Sen. Richard Pan said.

The California State Railroad Museum's "Chinese Workers' Experience" exhibit tells the stories of Chinese railroad workers who played a fundamental role in the building of the Transcontinental ...

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 ...

Luo is involved with the Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association. The Chinese immigrants were essential to the completion of the work through the mountains of the West.