Rose Parade: Chinese float breaks down

Caught fire and stopped the parade - Live!

The 90-foot-long Chinese American Heritage Foundation’s float commemorates the iconic photograph taken at Promontory Point, Utah, which heralded the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869. The entry features more than 12,000 roses and 3,500 orchid florets (the later used to create the yucca blossoms). The locomotives have been recreated in glossy black seaweed, velvety black onion and gray poppy seed, blue sinuata statice blossoms and red cranberry seed.

Hosts mentioned construction only started in mid-December