The well-known story of the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Irish and Chinese men who built it has been recounted many times, but the role of women in the development of America’s railroads has been mostly overlooked, despite the development of the academic discipline of women’s history since the 1960s. Chris Enss’s Iron Women: The Ladies Who Helped Build the Railroad (TwoDot, $19.95) is a great introduction to the overlooked topic. Her subjects, who lived from the mi
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