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Insight With Vicki Gonzalez

Hosted By Vicki Gonzalez

Award-winning journalist Vicki Gonzalez hosts interviews with community leaders, advocates, experts, artists and more to provide background and understanding on breaking news, big events, politics and culture in the Sacramento region and beyond.

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Transcontinental Railroad Marks 150th Anniversary

Friday, February 9, 2018 | Sacramento, CA
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The ceremony for the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah on May 10, 1869; completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.

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Next May marks the 150th anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad's creation in California. The impact of the railroad on the California economy and the transportation of goods is immeasurable. But the labor conditions Chinese immigrants faced for its creation are a critical part of the story.

Stephen Zhou, vice president of US-China Railroad Friendship Association, joins Greg Lukenbill representing California's 150th Transcontinental Railroad Committee for a conversation about the historical significance of the railroad and a series of events happening over the next year and a half in honor of it.

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