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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

What are the names of some workers of the Central Pacific Railroad?

What are the names of some workers of the Central Pacific Railroad?

Great grandfathers

Lewis Metzler Clement (1837-1914)

Civil Engineers

Locomotive engineers

CPRR locomotive engineer Arthur H. Real

Famous engineers

Chinese labor

Payrolls

CPRR payroll records

New Castle Trestle: Construction Payroll #94 (Charles Crocker, Contractor, CPRR, February, 1865)

"Payroll No. 102 dated March 1865 for Chinese workers employed during the construction of the transcontinental railroad. The [California State Railroad Museum] Library has approximately 300 payrolls for the period 1864 to 1866. The payrolls list the construction division for which the individuals worked, rates of pay and total pay received."

Chinese who laid the last rail: Ging Cui, Wong Fook, Lee Shao three of the eight Chinese men who brought up the last rail

Joining of the rails (Russell Photograph)

Ten mile day: Eight Irish workers

"Nameless Builders of the Transcontinental Railroad" by William F. Chew (see appendix) , Chapter 4

Builders of the Central Pacific Railroad

Theodore Judah

Railroad Construction

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