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That's hard to say. While the Pacific spur of the TCR was built primarily by Chinese labor, the much longer eastern line was built by multiple generation Americans and recently arrived Irish immigrants.

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They were mainly Chinese in origin, while in Britain, it was the Irish that built the railways.

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