In this video, we uncover the true cost of building America’s first coast-to-coast railroad and the sacrifices made to connect the country.

In this excerpt from the book's fourth chapter, Twain describes his 1861 journey by mule-drawn express mail coach, in the days before the railroad ... plains and mountains. We gave up the ...

Asa Whitney presents a resolution in Congress endorsing the funding of a railroad to the Pacific ... manufacturing nitroglycerin on-site in the mountains for the Central Pacific, eliminating ...

Chang writes that these Chinese workers “helped solidify the western future of the United States” in “Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad,” ...

More than 1,500 laborers, at least 1,000 of whom were Chinese, under the direction of former Central Pacific Railroad worker ...