After crews from the Central Pacific Railroad had started in Sacramento ... a final iron spike was driven to connect the railroads." I found the site as I was on my way to visit Spiral Jetty ...

The presidents of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met ... That in the opening of the great Pacific railroad today, connecting New York and San Francisco, we recognize a pledge ...

Promontory Summit was the point where the two rails would meet, physically and symbolically connecting the eastern ... without them, the Central Pacific Railroad would have failed,” Chang ...

The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) and the Union Pacific Railroad had been tasked by Congress to build a railway to connect the country. The CPRR, however, couldn't hire enough white workers at ...

One of the "Big Four" investors who built the Central Pacific Railroad, Collis Huntington played a key role ... Cooke's vision was to connect the northern Great Lakes with the Mississippi River and ...

Thousands of workers from a variety of ethnic and cultural backgrounds labored in grueling terrain and conditions to connect the ... men away from railroad work, Central Pacific started hiring ...

And the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California after ... until said roads shall meet and connect... Sec. 11. That for three hundred miles of said road most mountainous and difficult ...

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 ...

On May 10, 1869, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad lines joined 1776 miles of rail at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory. | National Park Service Digital Image Archives Gallery ...

completion of the transcontinental railroad. Many realize it was built largely by Chinese immigrants for the Central Pacific and Irish for the Union Pacific. But a third group provided key workers ...