Site of a Tragedy • • • I lit 32 candles in memory of the workers who died in the explosion here, 147 years ago. —————————————————— Carved along the San Andreas Fault, the Summit Tunnel near the town of Wrights Station, measured over 6,000 feet and once held the record for the longest railroad tunnel in all of California. But digging it came at considerable human cost: the lives of dozens of Chinese migrant workers. Inseparable from the story of California’s railroads is the exploitation of Chin