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fromABC7 Los Angeles
4 weeks ago

Summit Tunnel tours highlight Chinese railroad workers' legacy

The Summit Tunnel symbolizes the labor of Chinese immigrants who built the Transcontinental Railroad, highlighting their overlooked contributions and sacrifices.
fromSFGATE
3 months ago

This tiny California town gets overrun when Tahoe's roads are a mess

Author Jules Verne briefly mentioned the tiny railroad town tucked into the Sierra Nevada foothills in his classic "Around the World in 80 Days." The plot takes protagonists Phileas Fogg, a wealthy and bored Londoner, and his French sidekick, Passepartout, on a whirlwind global journey at the height of the Industrial Age. "The train, on leaving Sacramento, and passing the junction, Roclin, Auburn, and Colfax, entered the range of the Sierra Nevada," Verne wrote in 1872 of the Transcontinental Railroad leg of the journey.
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fromHigh Country News
8 months ago

What eating bitterness has to do with Chinese food - High Country News

No written records exist from Chinese railroad workers; landscape archaeology in Utah reveals segregated Chinatowns and artifacts like opium pipes and rice-bowl shards.
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