Construction got a slow start in Omaha, Nebraska, eastern terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad. By April 1864 the jubilance of groundbreaking had long ago faded into the ether. Chief engineer ...

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 ...

Locomotive fans will also have an opportunity to visit the “Experience the Union Pacific” rail car ... built by Chinese immigrants in the late 1800s. For prices ranging from $800 to $2,000 ...