Building the Transcontinental Railroad

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  • @hawkeyeten2450
    @hawkeyeten2450 5 років тому +175

    Finally, I was wondering when the media would at last give this story attention. Big Boy is more than a mere steam train, it's an American icon (and the largest successful engine ever). Glad to see it finally getting the spotlight it deserves.

    • @mrlionel1965
      @mrlionel1965 5 років тому +9

      I told my wife the same thing. This is a few weeks late, but at least it got the Nat'l attention it deserves. Big Boy IS more than just a mere steam train.

    • @arielfilmsinc1926
      @arielfilmsinc1926 5 років тому +2

      WELL in Utah they did I was there ALOT of people were too

    • @Nighthawk268
      @Nighthawk268 5 років тому +7

      Well didn't take long before the diversity narrative clouded the point of the video. Anything history related and make sure you throw some white guilt in there.

    • @trainfan-ks5hk
      @trainfan-ks5hk 5 років тому +1

      Let’s hope the king can get 1218 as his queen or the up challenger

    • @BadWolf762
      @BadWolf762 5 років тому +6

      Yep. The story was quickly turned into race, and away from the great accomplishment of the United States.
      Fake news always has to find the race, gender or gay angle.

  • @Misfitfan3996
    @Misfitfan3996 5 років тому +27

    I adore CBS Sunday Morning. Imagine a world where most of the programming was like this. Positivity would shine through.

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen 5 років тому +6

      , I also adore CBS Sunday Morning, especially when they show there true bias, and endorse butchering innocent little new born babies,,mentally ill, fake boys that whan to be girls,also FAKE news and lying propaganda concerning the terrible poisons in vaccines, GMOs, chem trails, human trafficking with Child Protective Services being child rapists,,,etc.

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen 5 років тому +4

      @Costa Zambaras , on the bright side, maybe you can look up a brain ,so says the talentless loser hack, that you are, with "This channel doesn't have any content: on your POS UTube channel and especially "NO ORIGINAL CONTENT" double loser, liberal hater.
      Show less

    • @MilwaukeeF40C
      @MilwaukeeF40C 5 років тому

      But seriously who is up that early on Sunday?

    • @HL-hd5yn
      @HL-hd5yn 4 місяці тому

      they're (CBS) too busy lying about the conservative half of the country

  • @erikaramirez6958
    @erikaramirez6958 5 років тому +69

    I never thought I'd see Abraham Lincoln talking into a cell phone 2:34! 😄

    • @jml8975
      @jml8975 5 років тому +3

      Anything is possible lol

    • @jstoli996c4s
      @jstoli996c4s 5 років тому +5

      It’s the internet, it must be true 😂

    • @robc8468
      @robc8468 5 років тому +4

      Historical note Lincoln was killed at the end of the Civil war years before the Transcontinental railroad was finished in 1869 is that guy playing Lincoln's ghost?

    • @OriginalBongoliath
      @OriginalBongoliath 5 років тому

      @@robc8468 Lol true

    • @axelpatrickb.pingol3228
      @axelpatrickb.pingol3228 5 років тому +2

      Isn't he the same guy who said never believe anything on the internet?

  • @Mister006
    @Mister006 5 років тому +78

    I'm so glad the descendants of the Chinese railworkers are in this piece, and their history reviewed!

    • @mariov1743
      @mariov1743 3 роки тому +1

      When isn't it? I haven't seen a doc made in the last 30 years that didn't review the Chinese contribution extensively. For example, this piece here is at least 2/3 about how abusive people were to the Chinese.

  • @USAF4615
    @USAF4615 5 років тому +150

    Our nation is built on the contributions and sacrifices of many people from many lands. WE would not be America or Americans if it were not for our rich tapestry of people who chose to become Americans. Thank you, let's stand together, not divided and be proud moving forward always.

    • @SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath
      @SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath 5 років тому +6

      America was over 90% white until the 1960s. Sure, lots of different races made contributions, but it was vast majority white men that built this nation. Look at all the old footage of the empire state building being built for example. All white men. America was founded on European values, which made it they way it is today.

    • @dylanjames4706
      @dylanjames4706 5 років тому +1

      Did all of them really chose?

    • @USAF4615
      @USAF4615 5 років тому

      @@dylanjames4706 Thank you....true that. Even those who were forced contributed.

    • @USAF4615
      @USAF4615 5 років тому +1

      @@victorhuey2892 Thank you, Yes that is true. The seminal issue is giving non-caucasians credit for contributing to the growth of the United States. Below is an article that does well to speak to that as I lack the talent to articulate the argument. Please take a look.
      www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/15/1485434/-THE-ABSURD-MYTH-THAT-CAUCASIANS-ALONE-BUILT-AMERICA

    • @Uefi-celes
      @Uefi-celes 3 роки тому +1

      our nation is built upon exploiting and slavery

  • @quelin1
    @quelin1 5 років тому +114

    Next time you are stuck at a crossing; sit, breathe, relax. Remember; we are moving the freight that supplies a nation.

    • @Stussmeister
      @Stussmeister 4 роки тому +2

      Indeed. I tend to look at those freight trains and think, "That's at least 150 semi trucks not on the road and potentially causing traffic headaches right now." I also want to thank you and the other railway workers for the important jobs that you do.

    • @mareerogers1114
      @mareerogers1114 3 роки тому

      I've crossed America four times via train. One of the great experiences. Love it when a freight and passenger train pass each other.
      I took video footage from the back door of the train. Awesome,it takes one's breath away!

  • @thomasbernecky2078
    @thomasbernecky2078 5 років тому +47

    I'm always glad to see an old locomotive rebuilt; but even more to see the descendants of the Chinese workers finally put in the picture.

    • @MilwaukeeF40C
      @MilwaukeeF40C 5 років тому

      They probably don't even look Chinese any more.

  • @awfulorv
    @awfulorv 5 років тому +8

    Eight Irish workers laid ten miles, fifty six feet, of rail from sunup to sundown, on one of the last days before the join up.
    They picked up, and laid down, 3520 rails, each weighing 560 lbs, for a total of 1,971,200, nearly two million lbs.
    Therefore each man carried , and put in place 246,400 lbs of steel, or 123.2 tons of steel, and walked at least ten miles, while doing so.
    They were supposed to be relieved at noon, but didn't trust the relief crew, so they worked all day.
    This shows the pride, and toughness, the workers of those day's had.
    Bless their memories.

    • @Voucher765
      @Voucher765 10 місяців тому

      I'm actually Chinese American with possible European blood and I'm proud that we contributed to building the railroad system here stateside

  • @KrazeDiamond
    @KrazeDiamond 4 роки тому +10

    Thank you CBS for giving some exposure to the Chinese-Americans who helped built America. This piece of history has long been ignored and it's way overdue for Chinese-Americans to receive the respect & recognition they deserve. Give credit where it's due.

    • @TheBandit7613
      @TheBandit7613 3 роки тому

      Who cares. At one point or another, everyone was discriminated against. The Irish, Italians, Greeks, and Germans. At one point in time, Germans were the countries "undesirables"

    • @esnstrider46
      @esnstrider46 Рік тому +2

      @@TheBandit7613so Sorry that you can’t seem to feel for other people. I suggest therapy

  • @stinker43
    @stinker43 Рік тому +1

    In the 1970s, a couple of college friends and I came up to the Donner Summit area and camped out ovenite with the idea to go rock climbing. Well, I don't recall any rock climbing there, but we walked thru the tunnels when there was no grafitti yet in place. I will never forget going thru those tunnels. Can't do that any more.

    • @stinker43
      @stinker43 Рік тому

      After they built the railroad, most of the Chinese who worked there came down to the Central Valley of CA (near Stockton) to work on creating the levees that allowed the central valley to become the breadbasket for much of the world in the late 1800s. To allow use of the peat dirt created by the reclamation by the levees, Stockton created the caterpillar tractor that ultimately became the army tank we see now all over the world.

  • @UP4014
    @UP4014 5 років тому +8

    I’m very glad No.4014 is up to its own power and running again, the big boy No.4014 was my favorite steam locomotive. I started liking big boy No.4014 when I was 3 or 5!

    • @5471Railfan
      @5471Railfan 5 років тому

      U do realize there is also an SD70M No. 4014 as well right?

  • @KamleshMallick
    @KamleshMallick 5 років тому +13

    Big Boy - What a collosus !
    Memories of
    Rail Road Tycoon 2 !
    What a game. Still play the 1998 classic.

  • @billnye5972
    @billnye5972 4 роки тому +31

    My History teacher Is making me watch this

  • @ChrisJones-gx7fc
    @ChrisJones-gx7fc 4 роки тому +3

    So happy to say I got to be there on May 10th! Something like 10,000 people turned out for the 150th anniversary at Promontory Summit (and that might have been just on May 10th!). Just as the Chinese were the bulk of the workforce on the Central Pacific, the Union Pacific's workforce was made up of a lot of Irish immigrants who too faced prejudice from their non-Irish counterparts. When both railroads entered Utah and were building side by side, the Irish and Chinese workers often worked together and could both relate to facing prejudice and discrimination. At the 150th anniversary the music group the Black Irish Band told this story and invited some Chinese descendants up on stage to sing some traditional work songs, showing how the two groups came together and shared a story that not many may have known about.

  • @tjprptchable
    @tjprptchable 5 років тому +6

    I believe at school we should talk more about the transcontenental railroad because it was like the first man to go to the moon in the 1800 and it was such a big accomplishment in history without the transcontenental railroad America woldint be America I am happy that this history finally hit the spotlight. And thank you UP for bringing back the iorn giant that we thought would never rule the rails agen.

  • @roaenokesyzlak7828
    @roaenokesyzlak7828 4 роки тому +8

    "If they can build a wall, they can build a railroad" Charles Crocker - Central Pacific R.R.

  • @normanoro206
    @normanoro206 5 років тому +5

    So many accomplishments by Asian-Americans have been erased. As an Asian-American (a Filipino-American), I'm glad this didn't happen to the immense contributions of Chinese-Americans to the creation of the transcontinental railroad.

    • @Voucher765
      @Voucher765 10 місяців тому

      Same as one after all we built the railroads

  • @gailbaron1574
    @gailbaron1574 5 років тому +3

    Thank You John Blackstone. I dressed the part, took a chance, you made my dream come true! I got to be part of the historic day. 2:33.

  • @Voucher765
    @Voucher765 10 місяців тому

    Well done Ed Dickens, Glad your taking up the torch of steam especially restoring the Big Boy

  • @TSemasFl
    @TSemasFl 5 років тому +4

    Now that's cool, good for them bringing our history back to life. I want to see it.

  • @journeymann1878
    @journeymann1878 5 років тому +52

    More freight trains less trucks.

    • @wayned1807
      @wayned1807 5 років тому +8

      Agreed but you still need a way to get it from the train to the market. Not every market or shop has tracks going to them. If they did you would be complaining about all the trains blocking your path to the store. Trucks take up where trains can't go. Trains are great for moving bulk items from one area to another. But terrible at getting it directly into your pocket.

    • @wolfboy20
      @wolfboy20 5 років тому +4

      Without trucks, goods would not be able to get into your hands

    • @robc8468
      @robc8468 5 років тому +3

      @@wayned1807 Long distance trucking makes no sense only for the last 150 miles or less.

    • @wayned1807
      @wayned1807 5 років тому

      @@robc8468 I ship a lot of tooling we make at my business to areas all over the country. Mostly small specialty items like molds, dies, assembly fixtures, etc. that will fit on one pallet or in a box. It's picked up by truck and delivered by truck. What it does in between is out of my control. I know trucking companies that specialize in refrigeration make long hauls with team drivers so they never stop except for fuel and food. Fed-Ex and UPS do the same. There is a huge Fed-Ex Ground facility down the street from my shop. A Fed-Ex truck pulls in there and leaves every minute like clockwork. Drivers are only in there long enough to swap trailers. Trucks have there place and trains have their place. Working together and competing against one another is what makes commerce work in a free country.

    • @TchaikovskyFDR
      @TchaikovskyFDR 5 років тому +2

      @@wayned1807 Trucks are inefficient when using the interstate - Use the rails at that point. But short range trucking is absolutely important.

  • @SethMethCS
    @SethMethCS 5 років тому +3

    0:23 they forgot to mention that what we railfans might never see again is the doubleheader.
    A doubleheader is where two steam engines supply traction on one train. Union Pacific #844 was behind #4014. This was a doubleheader, this is what we may never see again.

    • @cherylstallworth4627
      @cherylstallworth4627 5 років тому

      Well I don’t know if 4014 and 844 will *never* double head again. I wouldn’t be surprised if UP had them double head every year for the “Depot Days” event.

  • @brucewilson1958
    @brucewilson1958 2 роки тому +1

    One of those Chinese Railroad Workers was named Bing. After the Railroad was completed he found work on an Orchard in the Pacific NW. There, he developed a Cherry we know today as the Bing Cherry.

  • @prospector7893
    @prospector7893 2 роки тому +3

    good vid....i actually never understood why we have "China Town" in cities now I do Thank you so much to the Chinese who helped build the Transcontinental railroad!

    • @danielzhang1916
      @danielzhang1916 Рік тому

      Chinatowns were the only places where the Chinese could live, they made them into what they are today

  • @johnwhite7219
    @johnwhite7219 5 років тому +9

    Conditions were so bad on the Central Pacific's path through the mountains that a saying it the time "Chinamans Chance" meant no chance at all.

  • @Altoclarinets
    @Altoclarinets 5 років тому +2

    It's very simple:
    They started in the east, laying down the rail, and out in California folks were blazing out a trail. Towards the center they did strive; no one knew when they would arrive, building the Transcontinental Railroad. They cleared the way and blasted through the mountainside, and built big tressel bridges stretched across the valleys wide, and it's a fact they laid more than three thousand miles of track to build the Transcontinental Railroad.
    It took six years, and in the spring of 1869, in Promontory, Utah they connected the first line. And across the growing nation, folks joined in the celebration of the Transcontinental Railroad.

  • @Escobar224
    @Escobar224 5 років тому +6

    The West by Ken Burns covers this topic very well if anyone wants to know more.

  • @HSMiyamoto
    @HSMiyamoto 5 років тому +4

    Good job connecting two different stories. The stories of railroads are always more about people than iron and steam.

  • @sambenavidez7067
    @sambenavidez7067 5 років тому +37

    The same happened to the Irish on the eastern route.

  • @collinreesejones5525
    @collinreesejones5525 2 роки тому

    My stepmom is half Chinese...ABSOLUTELY LOVE HER AND THAT CULTURE!!! 😍

  • @DelayInBlockProductions
    @DelayInBlockProductions 5 років тому +5

    Ed Dickens is the man.

  • @timdaugherty5921
    @timdaugherty5921 5 років тому +3

    Love the Big Boy!!

  • @dejulesb7063
    @dejulesb7063 5 років тому +2

    Lincoln on the phone
    🤣

  • @nickeldime1691
    @nickeldime1691 5 років тому +6

    Alot of Chinese history and other ethnic groups of building America has been hidden and not giving any recognition for their efforts. I am sure glad that the people who contributed in building this great country has been recognized. We should have a special holiday to honor their efforts.

    • @TheBandit7613
      @TheBandit7613 3 роки тому

      So what? At one point or another, everyone was discriminated against. The Irish, Italians, Greeks, and Germans. At one point in time, Germans were the countries "undesirables"

  • @brianfalzon6739
    @brianfalzon6739 2 роки тому

    4014 has returned in 2019 and is still in operation as of today.

  • @kpkndusa
    @kpkndusa 5 років тому +19

    The Irish weren't thauht of too highly eather.

    • @seanpaterniti740
      @seanpaterniti740 5 років тому +1

      The Irish dug the Erie canal,mostly by hand in the early 1800s.

  • @benblexbenblex
    @benblexbenblex 5 років тому +1

    Good reporting

  • @arielfilmsinc1926
    @arielfilmsinc1926 5 років тому +5

    Someone proposed at Promontory AND judging by her reaction I AM sure she said yes. Can't find my video of it almost all the pics are the engines with selfie stick and arms There was a fighter jet flyover and News Hour did something on it Last if the couple is reading this Congratulations

  • @TheReal7Bit
    @TheReal7Bit 5 років тому +9

    The Irish workers of the Union Pacific part of the transcontinental railroad construction weren't even mentioned once, unfortunately. Just as much proud history on the UP than on the CP.

  • @JungleYT
    @JungleYT 5 років тому +10

    Well done... Great story... Other than the little Sun logo down in the RT hand corner, you kept the standard corporate crap clutter out of the story. God bless Ed Dickens and his crew. The "experts" said bringing the loco back to life would never be done, since it was coal burner, "too big", etc.

  • @derekjlight
    @derekjlight 5 років тому +7

    I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that one of those steam engines weighed over a million pounds and that one wheel was 17,000 pounds. That is biblical.

    • @wayned1807
      @wayned1807 5 років тому +4

      Yes and they were built 75 years ago before computers and modern machinery. Simply amazing!

    • @kevinchan1598
      @kevinchan1598 5 років тому

      That's pretty inaccurate to say as analog (and even some early digital) computers have existed before the development of the Big Boy started, and modern machinery was definitely not a recent development by that time as well.

    • @wayned1807
      @wayned1807 5 років тому +3

      @@kevinchan1598 Computers used in manufacturing as we know them today certainly did not exist 75 years ago believe me. I've worked in the manufacturing world as a machinists for 50 years. There were no CNCs, no CAD/CAM software programs, no desktop computers until 30 years ago. Just drafting boards and slide rules. The early computers were the size of warehouses used for secret government code breaking and had less power than a cheap calculator of today. You can pretty much guarantee they didn't use anything close to what we use today. It took brains and brawn back then, something a 20 year old today can't begin to understand.

    • @arailway8809
      @arailway8809 4 роки тому

      The Allegheny Steam Locomotive was even bigger, too big for the tracks:
      www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/9628/

  • @BuckeyeNationRailroader
    @BuckeyeNationRailroader 5 років тому +12

    Whoever was there at the celebration, hit the like button!

  • @doingtime20
    @doingtime20 5 років тому +13

    I want to get on a steam train.

    • @lowellmccormick6991
      @lowellmccormick6991 5 років тому +5

      Jump onboard the Durango-Silverton train. You'll have a great time. But bring sunglasses, a jacket & don't wear white.

  • @varietyplays3033
    @varietyplays3033 3 роки тому +1

    Who’s watching this because it’s an assignment from their history teacher?

  • @youngatheart1990
    @youngatheart1990 5 років тому

    My grandpa worked as a welder helping build the Big Boy locomotives in Chicago

    • @markfrench8892
      @markfrench8892 3 роки тому

      I thought American Locomotive Company (ALCO) was located in Schenectady, New York had built the Big Boys.

  • @petergrossett6763
    @petergrossett6763 5 років тому +1

    The glory of steam at its finest. USA! USA!

  • @TheMusicMan07
    @TheMusicMan07 3 роки тому +1

    Anybody else watch this in History class?

  • @e.elaina
    @e.elaina 4 роки тому +1

    I had to watch this for school :) interesting!

  • @timdaugherty5921
    @timdaugherty5921 5 років тому +2

    Hardly any comments onthe Big Boy 4014 wow

    • @russellgxy2905
      @russellgxy2905 5 років тому +1

      Because most people already know the story of 4014 already. Not many folks know the deeper parts of the Transcon

  • @SolamenteVees
    @SolamenteVees 3 роки тому +2

    This is really what the Chinese brought to the United States. Thank you 🇨🇳

  • @griggerp
    @griggerp 5 років тому +1

    the only thing i enjoy on TV

  • @hexazalea
    @hexazalea 5 років тому +1

    They didnt really use blackpowder to blast though the Seirra's they used nitroglycerin. Its more powerful but much much more dangerous.

    • @OriginalBongoliath
      @OriginalBongoliath 5 років тому +2

      They used black powder at first then switched to nitroglycerin when it became available.

  • @mikebtrfld1705
    @mikebtrfld1705 5 років тому +1

    The first transcontinental transportation was the Butterfield Overland Mail.

  • @jeffreymcfadden9403
    @jeffreymcfadden9403 5 років тому +56

    all this about the chinese building eastward,
    what about mentioning the drunken Irishmen who were building westward?

    • @scotcoon1186
      @scotcoon1186 5 років тому +12

      Or the Mormons.
      Oh, wait, no white man ever accomplished anything. We need to get woke.

    • @tammiettt
      @tammiettt 5 років тому +3

      Papaw was a coal mining irishman. He was a great papaw! He never drank.

    • @swmut
      @swmut 5 років тому +3

      I'll take the Western route any day over trying to tunnel through the Sierra Nevada mountains...

    • @benblexbenblex
      @benblexbenblex 5 років тому +8

      Fair. But the Irish are celebrated plenty. Far and away. Gangs of new york. Anything set in boston. Chinese Americans are always left out. Metaphorically. And literally. Chinese exclusion act. Google it friend.

    • @jamesdavis5096
      @jamesdavis5096 5 років тому

      Wait what about all the Indians they killed ua-cam.com/video/ieMgn_Gy9Gk/v-deo.html

  • @johnnyjames7139
    @johnnyjames7139 5 років тому +5

    Collis Potter Huntington spins in his grave because that "union" company now owns his Central nee Southern Pacific.

  • @stevethevlogger
    @stevethevlogger 5 років тому +4

    As no captions here, CBS feel free to please disable your sound, too!

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen 5 років тому +3

      @SC,,this why CBS, is well known as the "Communist Broadcasting System" ,,the most hated, "Enemy Of The People" in modern times.

    • @bosco7717
      @bosco7717 5 років тому +2

      @@saminaneen You're off your rocker.

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen 5 років тому +2

      @@bosco7717,, so says the talentless loser hack, that you are, with "This channel doesn't have any content: on your POS UTube channel and especially "NO ORIGINAL CONTENT" double loser, liberal hater.

  • @Mnrr6131
    @Mnrr6131 3 роки тому

    Herritage finally recognized.

  • @evaaa757
    @evaaa757 4 роки тому

    why am i reading the comments on this i just have to watch it for school😐

  • @MarcusLeepapi
    @MarcusLeepapi 5 років тому

    Very nice...

  • @dri6733
    @dri6733 4 роки тому +3

    my techer mad me whach it

  • @cynthialeatherman7770
    @cynthialeatherman7770 4 роки тому +1

    yay

  • @daedaetinez6406
    @daedaetinez6406 5 років тому

    Thank you to all 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 and all the men and women, politicians and ALL who made 🚂 🚊 🚞 happen! 💪🏻🗣🙏🏼

  • @antonleimbach648
    @antonleimbach648 3 роки тому

    The age of steam is still going strong. How do you think every power plant creates power? By boiling water into steam,

  • @williamerazo1685
    @williamerazo1685 5 років тому +1

    Is nostalgia

  • @captainofc34
    @captainofc34 5 років тому +1

    Wish the media would cover the mudflood theory

  • @rwboa22
    @rwboa22 3 роки тому

    China 🇹🇼 and Ireland 🇨🇮 was to America for the Transcontinental Railroad in the 19th Century as to what Germany 🇩🇪 was for Project Apollo in the 20th Century.

  • @cookiechip3306
    @cookiechip3306 5 років тому +2

    i saw the front of my car in the last clip

  • @famlingi9928
    @famlingi9928 4 роки тому +1

    i am here for a school project.

  • @SpiralBreeze
    @SpiralBreeze 5 років тому +2

    See, I keep telling people don’t knock China, they built this country.

  • @geomodelrailroader
    @geomodelrailroader 5 років тому +1

    UP has an amazing 150 year history. I wondered when CBS would do this story.

  • @aarongonzales8180
    @aarongonzales8180 3 роки тому

    Summer McEwen laughs

  • @Angels_693
    @Angels_693 4 роки тому

    Good

  • @hbarudi
    @hbarudi 5 років тому +2

    Certainly today we need more trains and less trucks on the highways.

    • @artnc4139
      @artnc4139 5 років тому

      Why do you believe that?

    • @hbarudi
      @hbarudi 5 років тому +1

      @@artnc4139 because energy issues, if you place that trailer on a train instead of driving it over 1000 miles, it would use much less fuel than to ship it by truck.

    • @artnc4139
      @artnc4139 5 років тому

      @@hbarudi - you are assuming that the beginning and end of the journey are located near a rail terminal and that the cargo is appropriate for a train. It isn't just about the energy consumption. Lettuce used to be shipped from California to Chicago on a daily non-stop Salad Train. That train no longer exists.

    • @hbarudi
      @hbarudi 5 років тому +1

      @@artnc4139 I assume rail terminal means a station for freight trains to load and unload materials, but at this point, still think it is worth bringing back the train that no longer exists for this kind of shipping as trucks are inefficient.

  • @wy7128
    @wy7128 5 років тому +1

    good story. mentioned the asian constributors.

  • @paulaharrisbaca4851
    @paulaharrisbaca4851 Рік тому

    The thing about the Chinese and the Irish and the Italians that came over in the 1800's for work was that they NEVER complained about being victims all the time. That's such a childish thing to do, and they never ever did it. It's only for political reasons that all peoples who came to America because it was literally a land of opportunity compared with where they had come from. And why they don't have black Americans who were slaves being seen, once they were freed, as people who now had the exact same opportunity as any other immigrant (maybe even with MORE opportunity since they had skills and abilities and natural familiarization with American culture that the other immigrants didn't have....I mean, within 25 years of the Irish potato famine, the Irish were already welcomed with signs saying "Irish need not apply!" signs...... I had an Irish ancestor who was pushed out of the NYC domestic workers market by the mass abundance of ex-slaves applying as maids. The Irish had a seriously bad reputation for being "Typhoid Mary's" and being hard to deal with and drinking to much and worst of all, Catholics....

  • @deepred5461
    @deepred5461 5 років тому +1

    Their ancestors build the Great Wall.

  • @ziggy3237
    @ziggy3237 5 років тому +15

    How did this go from a simple educational video to primarily focusing on the Chinese immigrants who aided. You left out the architects and the engineers (not locomotive) and, of course, the ones who funded it(excluding Abraham Lincoln). After the first 2 minutes, the video becomes a political video saying that they exclusively built the railroad without any other race or ethnicity/background in attendance. What about the unpaid African Americans and underpaid Irish on the east side. Or better yet, the captured Natives that were forced to the Midwest.

    • @anaquevedo5989
      @anaquevedo5989 5 років тому +4

      Otaku Bryson you are completely right!

    • @youngz13o
      @youngz13o 5 років тому +5

      Well if you watched the video, it was to regain recognition for the chinese people for their contributions that was erased from American history because of the anti-chinese movement that followed after they built it
      I think it strikes a note to others to not forget this country is not built by one group of people but by many people from around the world and should not be forgotton. in todays political climate where Trump has ousted China again for Americas issues, i see another divide being created where we focus on the wrong thing and not the thing that actually made this country great which is the work through unity of differnt people

    • @ziggy3237
      @ziggy3237 5 років тому +2

      Matthew Ng America was built by its political standards and it’s unreliable politicians. Forgetting that the Transcontinental Railway was a political movement to deepen the pockets of politicians, it was also to connect the East and West. The people who built it would not be recognized, including but not limited to, the Chinese. But, the fact that the Transcontinental Railway was for politics, doesn’t necessarily mean that news coverage of Union Pacific’s 4014 4-8-8-4 Bigboy has to turn into politics as well. The locomotive was restored so that our generation, and future generations could marvel at the sight of the largest Steam Locomotive in history and be grasped by the historical aspects of the Railway system in the United States of America. You’re correct that our history was built by multiple groups of people from many nations, but it’s arrogant of this news channel to only focus on a single group as if they were the only ones. The Chinese worked in the west alongside captured Native Americans and Mexicans, and the records of this were almost erased. But, in the east, you had many African Americans who worked for no pay, and Irish and German immigrants who were paid less than the cost of a shot of whiskey at a saloon. I’m not saying your wrong, I’m actually illuminating the point behind my complaint in the first place.

    • @TESTING-rz3gj
      @TESTING-rz3gj 8 місяців тому

      The video clearly states that Chinese laborers ALMOST exclusively built the WESTERN portion of the railroad (90% of it). Not mentioning other groups isn't necessarily erasure in this case.

  • @markvoelker6620
    @markvoelker6620 11 місяців тому

    The other half was built by Irish and former Union and Confederate soldiers and freed slaves.

  • @Shay-bp7yt
    @Shay-bp7yt 3 роки тому

    The Irish were a huge part.

  • @DeanRyanTV
    @DeanRyanTV 5 років тому +11

    I knew there would be some kind of racial component to a CBS Sunday Morning wholesome segment.

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen 5 років тому +6

      @Dean Ryan, what do expect from CBS, is well known as the "Communist Broadcasting System" ,,the most hated, "Enemy Of The People" in modern times.

    • @MarcusAurelius7777
      @MarcusAurelius7777 5 років тому +8

      Cheap, foreign labor has always been a part of American history, so maybe that's why it was discussed.

    • @bosco7717
      @bosco7717 5 років тому +3

      Why do you want history to be whitewashed?

    • @saminaneen
      @saminaneen 5 років тому +3

      @@bosco7717 , why you filthy lowdown liberal "RACIST" it is only your "White Privilege " that allows you to change the original term "blackwashed", you POS hypocrite, you had no problem with that West Virginia governor, who dressed in "blackface" and degraded African Americans, did you, sloppy seconds boy.

    • @_kommandant_3055
      @_kommandant_3055 5 років тому +2

      @@MarcusAurelius7777 No mention of the white irishmen who built the railway on the eastern side and received the same treatment as the Chinese 🤔

  • @YahYou813
    @YahYou813 5 років тому

    Thanks for building our tracks, now GIIIIIIIIIIIIT OUT!!!

  • @sumlunatiksmom
    @sumlunatiksmom 5 років тому +1

    What!? We shouldn't destroy something because it might remind us of bad times and bad behaviors!!!

  • @aarongonzales8180
    @aarongonzales8180 3 роки тому

    Lol fellowtomes!

  • @thomasdeturk5142
    @thomasdeturk5142 11 місяців тому

    4-8-8-4 locomotive

  • @b0ttomG
    @b0ttomG 4 роки тому

    Such an old train.

  • @ericwejman4250
    @ericwejman4250 5 років тому +1

    “One of the biggest” ummm it IS the biggest

    • @OriginalBongoliath
      @OriginalBongoliath 5 років тому

      In the railfan community there is a debate between this locomotive and the Chesapeake and Ohio 2-6-6-6 built by Lima Locomotive Works in Ohio for which one is the biggest/most powerful.

    • @yeoldeseawitch
      @yeoldeseawitch 3 роки тому

      @@OriginalBongoliath the big boy is longer, but the Allegheny is wider and taller

  • @stevethevlogger
    @stevethevlogger 5 років тому +3

    Groan...enable your captions, please. You never read the comments here, don't you?

  • @BadWolf762
    @BadWolf762 5 років тому +5

    Hats off to all the Caucasian men who restored the ALCO 4014 at the UP Steam Shop. It really paid tribute to all the white men who originally built them back in the '40s.

  • @lowellmccormick6991
    @lowellmccormick6991 5 років тому +6

    I watch a bit of the CBS Sunday Morning Show to see stories like this and Jim Gaffigan. However, I'd watch the whole show if there was less propaganda embeded in some of the stories.

    • @joeford860
      @joeford860 5 років тому +4

      I used to watch it when I got the chance, no more.
      The show has turned into crap.

  • @markothwriter
    @markothwriter 4 роки тому

    A lot of the Chinese workers went back to China after they had saved up enough.

  • @seththomas9105
    @seththomas9105 5 років тому

    What about the Irish?

  • @aarongonzales8180
    @aarongonzales8180 3 роки тому

    Hannah meloche laughs

  • @tamaraschmidt7231
    @tamaraschmidt7231 5 років тому +5

    Hey rail fans (foamers), check out Trains magazine stories and video. Very informative.

  • @kevinhoward9593
    @kevinhoward9593 5 років тому +2

    I'm surprised our Low grade steel tracks can handle the weight of that monster. I've seen one of the spikes in the Railroad Museum in Sacramento. I love how they just ignored the Irish laborers on the Union Pacific. 3:35 they didn't build the entire railroad themselves. the Irish helped build the Union Pacific. This Asian guy is just trying to take credit for something his people didn't even do.

    • @ConrailQuality775
      @ConrailQuality775 5 років тому +1

      Hardly low grade steel. Pick up a book sometime and you’ll see what goes into making rail.

  • @noteepy_
    @noteepy_ 3 роки тому +1

    peace wer auch von der 8c is loooool

  • @adrianamanjarrez1435
    @adrianamanjarrez1435 5 років тому +1

    like the Chinese ppl in Ventura califas...messed up

  • @johnnycrystalgower7271
    @johnnycrystalgower7271 4 роки тому

    What is thi--

  • @livingroomset2084
    @livingroomset2084 5 років тому +4

    didnt have to turn it into a race thing, you couldve mentioned how the chinese were the majority of the workforce and left it at that, and then filled the extra minutes with actually useful facts instead of reminding us of post-tcrr history some of us would like to forget

    • @virginiansupremacy
      @virginiansupremacy 5 років тому +6

      It is a part of the history.

    • @artnc4139
      @artnc4139 5 років тому +5

      Prior to the Chinese exclusion act, there was no immigration limitations based on country of origin. This act laid the foundation for blocking others during the Woodrow Wilson administration, primarily to block Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe fleeing WW1

    • @TESTING-rz3gj
      @TESTING-rz3gj 8 місяців тому

      "...actually useful facts instead of reminding us of post-tcrr history some of us would like to forget"
      If this isn't a big red flag, I don't know what is.

  • @aarongonzales8180
    @aarongonzales8180 3 роки тому

    Tara Babcock laugh

  • @aarongonzales8180
    @aarongonzales8180 3 роки тому

    Emma chamberlain laughs