DONNER SUMMIT, Calif. (KTXL) — Since rail lines were laid across the Sierra Nevada, a battle has ensued between the railroad companies and the seemingly never-ending snow, but a few trusted and ...

Bruce Cassasa, co-founder of Friends of the Sierra Railroad and the historic shortline’s greatest friend, reached the end of his line late last year in Pahrump, Nevada.

An average of six to ten thousand men worked on the railroad that winter, with as many as 12,000 at one time. Terrible Snows A fierce winter in 1866-1867 brought forty-four separate storms.

The president of Sierra Nevada Railroad has sent the V&T Railway Commission a letter protesting claims they didn't take good care of the McCloud Engine No. 18 over the past four years. Sierra Nevada ...

Instead, in the 1860s, teams of Chinese labourers blasted through the granite and painstakingly hand-chiselled 15 shafts through the Sierra Nevada so that the first transcontinental railroad could ...

With the opening last Sunday of the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum, Nevada County’s role in 19th and 20th century railroad history became well documented. Not only was the western county ...

The Central Pacific Railroad had a much harder job. It had to build a railroad through the Sierra Nevada, with its sheer cliffs, hard granite, and monster snowstorms.