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.
Perhaps the greatest physical feat of 19th century America was the creation of the transcontinental railroad. Two railroads, the Central Pacific starting in San Francisco and a new railroad, the Union Pacific, starting in Omaha, Nebraska, would build the rail-line.