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 ...
It was late fall in 1844 when a group of pioneers, horses, oxen and wagons arrived on the shore of a beautiful lake embedded below the wall of the Sierra Nevada. Snow had already accumulated on the ...
Crossing up and over the fabled Donner Pass in the northern Sierra Nevada and descending to Lake Tahoe is one of those essential rites of passage for Californians. But forget doing it in a car. Now is ...
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When a Deadly Winter Storm Trapped a Luxury Passenger Train Near the Donner Pass for Three Days
High inside locomotive 6019, engineer Tom Sapunor notched the throttle forward and squinted at the track ahead—not that he could see much of it. The blizzard that had barreled into the Sierra Nevada ...
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