Route Labor Overlay

Transcontinental Railroad Route Map — May 1869 completion route from Sacramento CA east via Sierra Nevada (Central Pacific) to Promontory Summit UT, then east via Wyoming/Nebraska to Omaha NE (Union Pacific). Mile-by-mile labor identification: Central Pacific labor identified as ~15,000 Chinese laborers (approximately 90% of CP workforce) + Irish, German, formerly enslaved African American workers; Union Pacific labor identified as primarily Irish American + formerly enslaved African American + Civil War veteran workforce. Indigenous nations displaced by the railroad route shown in translucent overlay: Paiute, Shoshone, Goshute, Bannock, Ute, Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Pawnee — ALL sovereign nations TODAY. The 'Andrew J. Russell East Meets West' photograph location at Promontory Summit marked, with annotation 'No Chinese laborer is in this famous photograph despite their majority labor — naming this absence is part of learning.' Style: cartographic with explicit labor-and-displacement legend.