Yearning to explore a town that’s not only scenic but welcoming? This California mountain gem in the Sierra Nevada might be the perfect option.

A year-by-year "what if" filling in a century-long gap of Academy Awards recognition for noteworthy stunt artistry and design in Hollywood movies.

He was captain of a party of pioneers that opened up what is now known as Donner Pass. Yes, THAT Donner Pass, nine miles west of Truckee, where desperate pioneers ATE each other. The Donner Party, it ...

The Alaska Railroad has one to keep an eye on the slopes along the rail line between Anchorage and Seward, and Union Pacific maintains one on Donner Pass in California. In both instances, the ...

Folsom’s leading railroad historian, ... Judah would later settle on today’s route through Roseville and over Donner Pass. Apparently, Judah was a bit of a big-thinking eccentric.

Folsom’s leading railroad historian, ... Judah would later settle on today’s route through Roseville and over Donner Pass. Apparently, Judah was a bit of a big-thinking eccentric.

The site of the largest camp for Chinese railroad workers in California in the 19th century is one of the country’s newest National Historic Landmarks.. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb ...

Chinese immigrants sacrificed to create America's first transcontinental railroad. Its completion may have contributed to a backlash that led to the first major immigration clampdown in U.S. history.

The section of the railroad that towers above Donner Lake, through Donner Pass, was especially difficult and perilous to build. One tunnel in particular, the Summit Tunnel, required workers to dig by ...

The most infamous of which occurred in 1993 when a towboat collided with the Bayou Canot Railroad Bridge and displaced a girder. The Sunset Limited attempted to pass over ... Donner Pass in ...

So it was the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy party in 1844, lookin' for the first wagon route over the pass, and that's where they met Chief Truckee out there by pyramid, right, the Peyote who was ...

The Donner Party. Thousands of people migrated from the Midwest to California through the pass, with the tragic events that happened to a large group of travelers in October 1846 gaining national ...