After the Exclusion Act was passed in 1882, Chinese miners in the American West, suffering from white unwillingness to employ them, turned to railway construction, and eventually followed the Iron Horse east to New York.
時值一八八二年，美國排華法案通過後，美西的華人礦工，因受到白人排擠，轉為築路工人，順著鐵路東移到紐約。