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 ...

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 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 ...

This story appears in the Dec. 7 print edition of Transport Topics. Union Pacific Railroad opened a route through California’s Donner Pass to domestic double-stack intermodal container service, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (KTXL) — Donner is a name synonymous with ...

The 226 people trapped on board the City of San Francisco endured freezing temperatures, carbon monoxide poisoning and food shortages. Bettmann via Getty Images High inside locomotive 6019, engineer ...