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.
He was one of 1,000 men who worked for three years to manually drill a hole through a mountain on the C&O railroad line. Hundreds of those men died, and John Henry was only one among them. But, probably due to his size and strength-and, likely, the presence he had with the other men-the legend of his hard hammering spread from work camp to work camp.