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

After all, he asks, “What could be more American than to build a railroad?” Forgotten Workers: Chinese Migrants and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad” is on view from May 10 ...

The role that Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad ... Another temporary exhibit features photos of Chinese workers. Most are anonymous, as the exhibit explains, because ...

They continued through Platte Valley, destroying stage stations and telepgraph wires, effectively halting transcontinental ... The railroad offered Pawnee people free passage on its work trains ...