American history classes typically teach that the original transcontinental railroad was a major triumph. What they don‘t say ...

The six men organize themselves as the first Board of Directors of the Central Pacific Railroad Company. October: Having completed his survey of the Sierra Nevada, Judah returns to Washington ...

Actually, 10,000 to 20,000 immigrant Chinese laborers had helped forge the Central Pacific’s path over the Sierra Nevada to its historic 1869 ... than the transcontinental railroad,” says ...

Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad ... all along the railroad right of way. Indian sightings sufficed to spook men, and line surveyors did not always return from their routes.