![]() History and Stories of the Donner Summit Historical Society. HIstory and Stories of the Donner Summit Historical Society. Chinese Railroad Workers on Donner Summit - Pt IV Celebration for Some.Chinese Railroad Workers on Donner Summit - Pt III Summit Camp.History and stories of the Donner Summit Historical Society. Chinese Railroad Workers on Donner Summit - Pt II Life, Work & Danger.History and stories of the Donner Summit Historical Society June, 2016 issue #94 Chinese Railroad Workers on Donner Sumit - Pt I.Alexander Saxton."The Army of Canton in the High Sierra." Pacific Historical Review 35 (May 1966): 141-152." Chinese Laboroers and the Construction of the Central Pacific." Utah Historical Quarterly 37(Winter,1969): High Road to Promontory: Building the Central Pacific (now Southern Pacific) Across the High Sierra. ![]() Beijing:China Intercontinental Press, 2017 not at FHL The Silent Spikes:Chinese Laborers and the Construction of North American Railroads. Victoria, British Columbia: Trafford, 2004. Nameless builders of the Transcontinental Railroad : the Chinese workers of the Central Pacific Railroad. Chinese Railroad Workers Memorial Project.Payroll Records- California State Railroad Museum Library.Stanford University Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project.Stanford University Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project - Home Page.Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association.A Legacy from the Far East - National Park Service.Chinese Laborers and the Construction of the Central Pacific.Chinese-American Contribution to the Transcontinental Railroad.FamilySearch Blog:The First Transcontinental Railroad: Did Your Chinese Ancestors Help Build It?.Chinese Railroad Workers - FamilySearch Wiki Article.Approximately 1,200 died while building the Transcontinental Railroad. The work was backbreaking and highly dangerous. Workers on the Railroad - Chinese Ä«etween 1865-1869, 10,000 -12,000 Chinese were involved in the building of the western leg of the Central Pacific Railroad. Manuscript Collections Relating to the Central Pacific Railroad.There are no known Central Pacific Railroad passenger list records. Most would have settled in Utah, Nevada, or northern California. Settlers using the Central Pacific Railroad were likely to be from Eastern or Midwestern states along the tracks of the Union Pacific and connectors such as Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Utah. During most of its history, the Central Pacific tracks through Nevada to Ogden, Utah were controlled by the Southern Pacific Railroad. This railway company laid 690 miles of track. Feeder line to Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County.Extension to Stockton, San Joaquin County.Through Sierra Nevada Mountains in California.The Central Pacific Railrad from west to east went through the following towns (listed with their modern county names): ![]() ![]() Later in 1904 the Lucin Cutoff was completed across the Salt Lake to shorten the route to Ogden, Utah and avoid mountain grades and curves. On the Central Pacific joined track with the Union Pacific at Promontory Summit, Utah north of the Great Salt Lake to form the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. In 1868 they laid 306 miles of track across Nevada, and set a world record building ten miles of track in twelve hours in 1869. ![]() steel tracks, lack of blasting powder, and the expense of grading, tunneling and bridging in steep mountains. They overcame terrific problems including, labor shortages, difficulty obtaining U.S. In 1865 they reached Colfax, and in 1866 Cisco, California. They slowly started their eastward race toward the oncoming Union Pacific Railroad by building to Roseville, California in 1864. Starting in 1863 in Sacramento, California, the Central Pacific laid their first tracks. The company that could build the most track would receive the most land. Congress offered land grants along the tracks in a checkerboard pattern as an incentive to the builders. During the Civil War Congress authorized the building of this railroad. In order to bind the nation together from California to the eastern states visionaries proposed a railroad between the west and east coasts of the United States. ![]()
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