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Workers of the Central and Union Pacific Railroad
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 ...
KGUN 910d
2025 Silver Spike Railroad Jubilee this Saturday in Downtown Tucson
This Saturday, head downtown for the 2025 Silver Spike Railroad Jubilee. It’s the 145th anniversary of the arrival of the ...
Palo Alto Weekly1y
History on her front porch: Palo Alto woman honors Chinese railroad laborers with exhibit
The Chinese railroad workers’ story also has a page in Palo ... The Niles Canyon Railway’s Sunol train depot also has exhibited panels since 2018. Arima is also lobbying the Smithsonian ...
Business Insider3y
China's $5.6 billion high-speed railroad has opened up in Tibet. Its electric bullet trains are racing 250 miles across the country.
China's first fully electrified bullet train is now on the tracks in the remote Himalayan region of Tibet The new railroad connects Tibet's capital, Lhasa, to the city of Nyingchi, about 423 ...
The Associated Press on MSN21d
Pakistani insurgents attack a train carrying hundreds of people and take hostages
Pakistani insurgents attacked a passenger train carrying several hundred people as it passed through a tunnel on Tuesday and claimed to have taken more than 100 hostages, though officials later said ...