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.
A report by Thomas C. Durant to the Union Pacific Railroad Board of Directors. Courtesy of HathiTrust. The Union Pacific Railroad Company quickly laid track and racked up milesâand government money. Under the leadership of Thomas Durant, they altered the original transcontinental route to add more miles for profit. Durant also had a habit of withholding wages from the men working on the railway, leading to strikes.