RENO — It’s ironic so many American success stories happened at a spot named for one of history’s iconic failures. But that’s how it is with the Donner Pass near Truckee, Calif. The first wagon train ...
WEBVTT THEY HAVE GROWN TO INCLUDE 300 ATTENDEES. HERE IS A-YEAR-OLD JONATHAN. HE WAS BORN WITH A HEART DEFECT AND HAS OVERCOME 10 SURGERIES. HE CAME TO SACRAMENTO TO FOLLOW HIS DREAM OF CONDUCTING A ...
More than 150 years ago, thousands of Chinese laborers bored through solid granite to construct miles of railroad tunnels on Donner Summit, an astonishing engineering feat and a crucial link in the ...
The fleet of maintenance machinery that keeps our nation’s railways and roadways clear comprises some of the coolest machines out there today. The Union Pacific Railroad’s three rotary snowplows are ...
The California Zephyr that blazed from downtown Sacramento’s Amtrak station to Nevada Friday morning had an engineer like no other. Meet 8-year-old Jonathan Dockins. Jonathan was born with a severe ...
The Donner Summit tunnels and 13 others in the Sierra Nevada built by Chinese railroad workers remain a testament to ingenuity and industry. Shoshi Parks A summer hike led me straight to the yawning ...
Most readers have crossed Donner Pass on Interstate 80 dozens of times while heading to Reno and destinations east. Far fewer have taken the Norden exit onto the old Donner Pass Road/historic Highway ...
The Tahoe region has seen a deluge of snow this December. After about 2 feet fell at the start of the month, back-to-back storms slammed the Sierra over the weekend, dumping a further 4 feet of snow ...
TRUCKEE, Calif. — The demise of the ill-fated Donner Party and the documented cannibalism that took place continue to fascinate 169 years after the story of horrible death by starvation. A new ...
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