The Skinny on Compression Shorts. by Berkeley Wellness | January 01, 2013. Print. Browse through a sporting-goods store or website, or simply look around a gym or health club, and youâre likely to see the thick, stretchy shorts and tights (and sometimes tops) known as compression garments.
The short answer is that nobody really knows. The Central Pacific Railroad had a maximum of about 12,000 workers at one time, and the Union Pacific probably had a similar number, but people came and went, so the actual number who ever worked is significantly larger, but unknown.
Later that year, workers completed the final leg to the West coast, with tracks leading from Sacramento to Oakland. The Transcontinental Railroad proved quite popular, after its initial coast-to-coast run that arrived on June 4, 1876, completing a journey from New York City to San Francisco in 83 hours, 39 minutes.