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.
The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in six years. The Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad lines met at Promontory Summit, Utah. It was here on May 10, 1869 that California Governor Stanford drove the Golden Spike (or the Last Spike), that symbolized the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad.