Asa Whitney presents a resolution in Congress endorsing the funding of a railroad to the Pacific ... It does not designate a meeting point for the lines. January 8: Newly-elected California ...

Actually, 10,000 to 20,000 immigrant Chinese laborers had helped forge the Central Pacific’s path over the Sierra Nevada to its historic 1869 meeting with the Union Pacific. The “silent spikes ...

Asa Whitney presents a resolution in Congress endorsing the funding of a railroad to the Pacific ... It does not designate a meeting point for the lines. January 8: Newly-elected California ...