Ryan HiteFeb 12, 2025

đźš‚ The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, revolutionizing travel in the U.S. But behind the triumph lay corruption, tragedy, and sacrifice.

đź“– Read more: https://www.ryanjhite.com/2025/02/11/the-transcontinental-railroad-a-story-of-ambition-innovation-and-tragedy/

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The Transcontinental Railroad: America’s Greatest Engineering Feat—and Its Dark History

Explore the incredible story of the Transcontinental Railroad—its ambitious construction, fierce competition, immigrant labor, and the tragic cost of progress.

Ryan J. Hite
Today On ScreenMay 10, 2024

#OnThisDay, May 10, 1869, the ceremonial 17.6-karat Golden Spike was driven, completing the last link in the transcontinental railroad across the United States (depicted in Hell on Wheels, s05e14, 2016)

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Today On ScreenMay 10, 2023

#OnThisDay, May 10, 1869, the ceremonial 17.6-karat Golden Spike was driven, completing the last link in the transcontinental railroad across the United States (depicted in Hell on Wheels, s05e14, 2016)

#Film #Movies #HellOnWheels #GoldenSpike #TranscontinentalRailroad #Histodons #History @histodons

Anne Fausto SterlingDec 22, 2022
1/2 What's in a name? I've been reading this book. Important in many regards. But one feature stands out for me: the dehumanization of the Chinese who built the Transcontinental RR. They had no names. They were not named in company employment records. They were not named in newspaper accounts of fatal accidents. (10 people were killed. Actual names of 2-3 white people and 10 "chinamen". https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/ghosts-of-gold-mountain-the-epic-story-of-the-chinese-who-built-the-transcontinental-railroad/
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Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad - Association for Asian Studies

By Gordon H. Chang Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020 320 pages, ISBN: 978-0358331810, Paperback Reviewed by Daniel A. Métraux The meeting of two huge locomotives on May 10, 1869, of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railways at Promontory Point in Utah is one of the most notable events in American history. For the first […]

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