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 of ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Hilton Obenzinger discusses why certain immigrants did not want a job building the transcontinental railroad and then further discusses why the Union ...

This would have been a nickname - let's hope it was affectionate - referring to the Chinese workers and business owners from the nearby market who lived in the neighborhood, including some who lived ...

The first Transcontinental Railroad was finished officially in 1869, and it connected the western and eastern United States. Supreme Court backs Republican lawmaker in Maine who was punished for ...