OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Michael Kwan can't help but think about what life was like on a daily basis for his great-great-grandfather in the 1860s, working 12-hour days in California's Sierra Nevada mountain ...

East finally met West 145 years ago on America's first transcontinental railroad. The symbolic hammering of a golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah, completed the connection between the country's ...

After six years of toil, on May 10, 1869 — 150 years ago today — the First Transcontinental Railroad was officially completed with the hammering of the “Golden Spike” to the last tie, connecting the ...

Chinese community and local leaders gathered at the California State Railroad Museum on Wednesday evening to dedicate a museum exhibit to the late board member and civic leader Dr. Herbert Yee.

STANFORD, Calif. (KGO) -- It is an American success story -- the linking of the east and west by railroad in the 1860s. However many of the people who built it weren't Americans but Chinese, and now ...

Michael Kwan can't help but think about what life was like on a daily basis for his great-great-grandfather in the 1860s, working 12-hour days in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range on the ...

Some photographs taken during the railroad's construction feature Chinese laborers. More photos can be found on Stanford University's Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project's website. East ...

Michael Kwan can't help but think about what life was like on a daily basis for his great-great-grandfather in the 1860s, working 12-hour days in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range on the ...