Passing over the Sierra Mountain Range, Interstate 80 extends miles across the high desert of Nevada. Sitting along I-80 is the small town of Carlin, 23 miles west of Elko. Carlin’s motto is “Where the Train Stops and the Gold Rush Begins.” On July 3, 2018, the remains of 13 Chinese workers were reburied in Carlin’s Cemetery in a ceremony honoring “the oldest citizens of Carlin.” These remains were discovered by accident in 1996. Local restaurant owner Liju Chin and the town of Carlin have been waiting for these remains' coming home for 22 years. Archeological research has shown that these 13 Chinese had rough lives dating back to more than a hundred years ago, a time when Carlin was a railway station of The Transcontinental Railroad. The 25-minute documentary tells a story about the town’s deeply rooted love and respect.

Directors Biography- Min Zhou

An award-winning journalist and filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Min has been focused on researching Chinese-American immigrant history and working on multiple documentaries projects from the Chinese railroad workers in 19 th century to the Chinese veterans in WWII. She has been invited to museums, colleges and non—profit organizations in US to screen her films about the Chinese railroad workers. Among the awards she has won are the Gold Award for Arts and Cultural documentary film from 50 th Houston International Film Festival in 2017，21th Excellent News Reporting from Northern California Chinese Media Association in 2018 and Storyteller’s Award for bringing the Chinese pioneers’ stories to life through short documentary film in 2019. She was invited to 150 th Golden Spike Conference in Utah. She finished producing A Trilogy: The Builders of the Iron Road in May 2019 which includes three shorts varying from 25-30 minutes featuring the stories about the Chinese railroad workers who built the west portion of the first Transcontinental Railroad. She also directed and produced The Black Spikes, a short documentary film reflecting Chinese American’s 150 years of journey in US that sponsored by U Channel TV. Min was selected a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 2011. She has been a contributing writer for top news magazines in China. Her most influential feature stories include Justice Came in 125 Years and A memoir of Chinese Workers on Central Pacific Railroad. Min works in Silicon Valley as a journalist and filmmaker with U Channel TV, the largest non-profit Chinese community TV station in North America.