NEW YORK (PIX11) — Railroads and infrastructure help shape a city and a country. Chinese immigrants had an important role in the creation of the first railroad across the United States.
But some of their family members say their contributions have been forgotten.
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The first Transcontinental Railroad was finished officially in 1869, and it connected the western and eastern United States.
Joseph Luo from Brooklyn can trace his family back five generations to a great-great-great-grandfather who worked on the project…