The Graders

Dr. History's Tales of the Old West - A podcast by Dr. Ken Turner - Tuesdays

With picks, shovels, wheel barrows, teams and scrapers, they prepared the grade for ties and rails. The Chinese ate healthy, worked hard and had the most dangerous job of drilling and blasting the solid rock to build the tunnels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices