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One of the challenges officials from the Union Pacific and Central Pacific faced in building the transcontinental railroad was finding workers to help with construction. Irish immigrants had been a common source of labor in the United States since the early 1800s and had become a major labor force during the late 1840s as famine drove them from ...
After the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, many immigrants coming to the United States through places such as Ellis Island, where many Irish came, used the railroads as a way to migrate west.
Map of the Transcontinental Railroad created in 1883. "The short, quick and safe line to all points west." During the launch of this massive project, life in Ireland was becoming increasingly difficult. Irish agriculture was becoming market-oriented and Ireland’s population was increasing.
10 Μαΐ 2019 · In addition to Chinese workers and Latter-Day Saints who worked for Central Pacific, Irish immigrants fleeing famine and newly freed slaves laid track across the Great Plains for the Union...
Information and data on the labor of Irish Immigrants in New York and the surrounding area.
Soon after the railroad made its appearance in the U.S. in the 1830s, Americans dreamed of linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by rail. A transcontinental railroad would allow for settlement of the west, open new markets for eastern manufacturers, and bring relief to overcrowded eastern cities.
Union Pacific hired large numbers of Army veterans, Irish immigrants, and Mormons from Utah worked on the railroad, which advanced rapidly across the Great Plains, despite Indian hostility to the ‘Iron Horse’.
