After crossing Donner Summit in cars, bicycling and even walking the only thing I hadn’t done was ride a train over the storied summit. When the suggestion was made to do so, I was far from ...

On a normal run, the Southern Pacific Railroad’s City of San Francisco train could whisk passengers ... rescues of small planes that crashed on Donner Pass as the lead dog of the sled that ...

Summit Camp is located along Donner Pass Road ... Camp is a retaining wall known as the China Wall and the tunnel where trains passed through for decades before a new route was created nearby ...