"Scholar's search for Chinese railroad workers' history leads to East Coast railways"

"Scholar's search for Chinese railroad workers' history leads to East Coast railways" by Chris Fuchs, © nbcnews.com, April 26, 2019. (News Article)

" ... In the two decades following the 1869 completion of the first transcontinental railroad ... Chinese railroad workers fanned out across the country to help build, maintain and repair at least 71 other rail lines. ... said Stanford University professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin, who uncovered this piece of history and wrote about it in the forthcoming book, The Chinese and the Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad." [More]

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