The brave men who built the American Transcontinental Railroad between 1865 and 1869 came from China, Ireland and the defeated South. The Union had won the Civi... » 

The brave men who built the American Transcontinental Railroad between 1865 and 1869 came from China, Ireland and the defeated South. The Union had won the Civil War and the government pitted the Union Pacific against the Central Pacific in a race that encouraged speed over caution. «