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.
On April 28, 1869, shortly before the Transcontinental Railroad was completed, the Central Pacific crew laid an astonishing ten miles of track in one day. As the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific crews drew closer together in western Utah, their rivalry intensified.