Monica Yeung Arima stands in front of the “Chinese and the Iron Road — Building the Transcontinental Railroad” exhibit on her front porch in Palo Alto on May 16, 2023. Photo by Sue Dremann. An exhibit ...

The California State Railroad Museum held a ceremony honoring Chinese immigrants who helped build the transcontinental railroad. As the westernmost point of the original tracks, Sacramento was at the ...

Part I. Competing interests and railroad construction: Technology and semicolonial ventures -- Managing transitions in the early Republic -- Part II. Railroads in the market and social space: Moving ...

Dr. Wesley Yee, left, whose father Dr. Herbert Yee died in 2021, mingles with attendees after his father was honored by the California State Railroad Museum and Foundation on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, ...

As many as 20,000 Chinese workers were recruited to build North America’s railways. Their descendants are still fighting for recognition, writes photographer Philip Cheung. A freight train passes ...

The Chinese Joss House Museum -- rebuilt in 1990 after the original burned down in 1922 -- tells the story of a once-thriving Chinese community that helped shape the development in America's wild West ...

Chinese immigrants laid down 690 miles of track in the mid 1800s for North America’s first transcontinental railroad, connecting Sacramento to Promontory Summit in Utah. The efforts of these migrant ...

The Golden Spike Monument, a sculpture by artist Douwe Blumberg, is dispalyed in front of Union Station on Friday, May 3, 2024. The 43-foot, gold leaf-covered monument was commissioned to honor the ...

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For about as long as there’s been an Oregon, there have been Chinese Oregonians. At the Portland Chinatown Museum, one of the first photographs ever made of Portland in the 1850s includes a Chinese ...