A hike through miles of abandoned train tunnels along the Donner Pass near Lake Tahoe is like visiting a graffiti art gallery ...

Builders of the transcontinental railroad faced geographical obstacles ... a twelve-ton steam engine -- to the top of Donner Pass, where it was let down carefully above Tunnel No. 6 and housed ...

Theodore Judah and the American railroad matured together ... received an invitation to climb Donner Pass from Dutch Flat storekeeper Doc Strong. The route over the pass was the easy, continuous ...

The Visitor Center features exhibits on the Donner Party incident, the railroad builders ... long and a little over a half mile wide, it's on the eastern side of Donner Pass, and features 37 ...