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Sierra Nevada
California mountain range that Central Pacific crews, mostly Chinese, tunnelled through.
Place
Identifiers
Wikidata Q26777
Appears in
2 items
Railways: From Stockton to the Shinkansen
2 items
Building the first transcontinental railroad
· mountain crossing
8 Jan 1863
Three thousand Chinese workers strike in the Sierra
· site
24 Jun 1867
Sources
Book
Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863–1869
Book
Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
