Switching services at Eugene's railyard are now being provided by Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad, over the objections of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Actually, 10,000 to 20,000 immigrant Chinese laborers had helped forge the Central Pacific’s path over the ... addresses the ways in which the railroad transformed the American West while ...