Kathy Change

“ We raced the Moonhunter round the mountain curves, climbing up and plunging down like a giant roller coaster. As we rode we feasted on game we caught, and gambled and played our music. When we saw Tong Yun in trouble we stopped to help. If they were poor we gave them food and gold. If they were being bothered by troublemakers we fought the troublemakers off.
The first railroaders grew old and died, but the ghosts of our people still ride the Moonhunter through the Sierra Nevadas. They still look after us Tong Yun in Gum Sahn, and the Iron Moonhunter still plays his song. ”

“ Kwan Ming had a plan. "We'll build a railroad for the spirits," he said, "our own Tong Yun railroad. We'll build the finest train in the world, and we'll ride our train to find the spirits of our friends and brothers."
And that's what we did. While we built the Central Pacific Railroad, we saved some of the steel rails. When the trains crashed and tumbled off the tracks, which happened often in those days, we gathered up the parts. We built a train in the shape of a dragon and called it the Iron Moonhunter. ”

“ The other men began to shout and talk about blowing up the railroad, but Kwan Ming calmed them down. "Talk sense, men," he said. "The railroad is our work and we should be proud of it. We're going to finish it because when we Tong Yun say we'll do something, we don't stop halfway." ”