“Clearly the Transcontinental Railroad would not have been completed without their ... Another temporary exhibit features photos of Chinese workers. Most are anonymous, as the exhibit explains, ...

The arrival of the railroad and, with it ... effectively halting transcontinental communication. Later, the party returned to Julesburg and burned it to the ground. General Grenville Dodge ...

When the signal from the spike came through, the cannons fired. The world was put on notice: the transcontinental railroad was completed and America was moving to the forefront of the world's stage.