The Leviathan locomotive was a steam locomotive built in 1838 by Robert Stephenson and Company. It was built for the Great Western Railway and was one of the largest locomotives of its time, measuring ...

Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the Canton Province began arriving on California's shores in 1850, pushed by poverty and overpopulation from their homeland — and ...

upon the same terms and conditions in all respects as are provided [for construction of the Union Pacific Railroad].... The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California are hereby authorized to ...