The Summit Canyon trail partially follows the traces of these early roads built over Donner Pass. The Dutch Flat-Donner Lake Wagon Road was a toll road constructed by Central Pacific Railroad in ...

Donner Pass is up to 73 miles shorter and up to three hours faster than the Feather River Canyon route, depending upon the destination. In addition, UP can now operate trains up to 9,000 feet in ...

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The Summit Tunnel Conservation Association (STCA) is pleased to announce that on December 13, 2024, Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, designated the 1867-68 encampment area of the ...

Make a point of visiting the Donner Summit Historical Society’s info-packed museum, 21501 Donner Pass Road, Soda Springs. With luck, you’ll find Norm Sayler minding the museum, offering ...

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 ...

On a normal run, the Southern Pacific Railroad’s City of San Francisco train could whisk passengers from Chicago to San Francisco in 40 hours and 15 minutes. But this wasn’t a normal run, even ...

The deep snow, however, proved no match for a snowplow-equipped locomotive careening through a historic section of railroad in Soda Springs, just west of the Donner Pass, last week.

“The layout has been down here since 1972, and originally it reflected the Sierra Nevada mountain range over Donner Pass,” said Ron Kocol, a longtime member. “We decided to create a route ...