First railroad in China [The Tientsin Railway of China, opened 1888]

From: "Bruce Cooper" BCC@CPRR.org

Many of the workers who built the first railroad in China worked on the CPRR grades to Promontory, Oregon and Los Angeles.

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The Railroad as an Element in Eduction (New Edition) by Prof. Alex Hogg, M.A. 1899, pp. 59-60: