Dogpatch Ranch: The Origins of a Chinese American Family

A film by Glenn Robert Lym as a part of his San Francisco Bay Area Video Podcast series called HERE. The whole series can be found on iTunes and Youtube. This film is the story of railroad worker Lim Lip Hong and his wife, Chan Shee. It tells of their »

Transcontinental Railroad

“The Line” is a segment of Seven Wonders of the Industrial World,  a documentary/docudrama produced by BBC and originally aired in 2003-04. Narrated by Robert Lindsay and produced by Jill Fullerton-Smith ahd Deborah Cadbury. “By the middle of the 19th century, the benefits brought by the host of advances of the »

Leland Stanford

Radio broadcasting during the era of recovery from the Great Depression was a critical factor in that recovery. The early Radio networks were recovering as well. Cash-strapped and low on capital, the networks of the era turned more and more to independent programming producers to meet the Nation’s voracious appetite »

Men of Iron

An original song writen by Black Irish Band member Patrick Michael Karnahan in honor of the Chinese Americans that built the Central Pacific Railroad. Band member James Nelson sings lead on this ballad based on the struggle to build a railroad over the mighty Sierra Nevada Mountains. Historians state that »