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.

Northern California railroads are steeped in historical significance, so there are several museums in the area where you can learn more about this once opulent mode of transportation. Latest U.S.

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 a… ...

Dealing with winter in the Sierra Nevada isn’t easy, but a new exhibit at the California State Railroad Museum shows visitors how the railroads have kept trains moving year-round.

The coach was part of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad.” Stanford, an insurance and industrial tycoon and head of Central Pacific Railroad in the 1860s, oversaw the building of the western section of ...

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 ...

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.