"Discover how 1, 500 Chinese workers built a railroad at lightning speed ... Scientists Discover the Identity of 558-Million-Year-Old Ancient Creature, Solving a Decades-Old Mystery Vikings ...

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 ...

Browse a photo gallery of settlers, Native Americans, and workers whose lives were affected by the railroad as it traversed the West.

The site of the largest camp for Chinese railroad workers in California in the 19th century is one of the country’s newest National Historic Landmarks. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland ...