A poor but feisty Chinese woman, disguised as a boy, joins the railroad crew in the Rocky Mountains to search for her long-lost father, and falls in love with the son of the railroad tycoon. It’s a canadian China co production .. so for sure.. must support eh. If you wanna watch it .. follow the birdie, the show is so long, if you want to download it yourself, you need more notebook memory like myself.
This is the story of three lives brought together in the high mountains of the west.
Lured by the myth of “Gum San”, the Gold Mountain where fortunes are made, thousands of desperate Chinese workers leave their homeland with a dream – to make their fortune in North America by laying a coast-to-coast railroad through the treacherous mountain passes.
They learn that railroads only bring fortune to the few. They learn that building a railroad means explosives and iron, rock and wood. Every foot is purchased with muscle and sweat. Every mile is bought with courage, fear, and death.
The Canadian Pacific Railway, completed in 1885, was the last of the great iron roads built in North America and left behind a mythology that lives today as part of our heritage.
Iron Road is the story of the hard-won triumph of a Chinese street urchin named Little Tiger, whose quest for her long-lost father takes her from a fireworks factory in China to a remote construction camp in the Rockies. She falls in love, survives prejudice and treachery, and achieves a bittersweet fulfillment of her quest.
It’s the story of the transformation of James Nichol, the irresponsible son of a railroad tycoon, a night traveler without a star, into a man of character and purpose.
And it’s the story of a Book Man, the Chinese overseer of Little Tiger’s crew – proud, scarred, a rebel hunted down by his enemies, struggling for revenge in that perilous world.
Their story is a window into the neglected history of how Chinese workers helped forge the railroad that held Canada together.
It begins in Southern China in a fireworks factory where Little Tiger ekes out a living, disguised as a teenaged boy. A handsome North American playboy named James Nichol is about to walk into her life and change it forever.
