Documentary tells story of Navajo railroad workers

Photo by Jack Delano c1944 (Library of Congress)

(Albuquerque Journal) ... “Metal Road” highlights the thousands of Navajos who for decades have worked the railroads, maintaining the trans-continental network.
The documentary explores the dynamics of livelihood, family and the railroads through the lens of a Navajo trackman, and it follows three Navajo railroaders from New Mexico as they leave their homeland to replace aging railroad tracks from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean under extreme weather conditions.
“The story shows how Native Americans helped to build and maintain the tracks,” she says. Continued