Railroads and infrastructure help shape a city and a country. Chinese immigrants had an important role in the creation of the ...

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.

As a Chinese American artist raised by a father obsessed with television westerns, the little-known stories of immigrant railroad workers resonated with him and encouraged him to dig deeper into ...

The history of these immigrants who literally laid foundations ... some with shovels still in their hands. Chinese railroad workers risked their lives blasting 15 tunnels and building protective ...

SACRAMENTO -- 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 ...

Roland Hsu, the director of research of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America at Stanford, talks about the historical impact the Chinese immigrants had in building the railroad.

A plaque on the monument will commemorate the contributions of the Chinese workers, as well as other groups that worked on the railroad: Immigrants, Indigenous people, freed Black people ...

ALBANY — THE CHINESE IMMIGRANTS WHO HELPED BUILD the Transcontinental Railroad are being honored ... also honoring both the 19th century railway workers and many of their descendants — Asian ...

As many as 1,200 Chinese immigrants died constructing it. However, on this day of celebration, railroad executives decided to exclude their Chinese workers from the official ceremony and photographs.