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.

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… ...

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.

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 ...

Snowsheds shielded railroad tracks from storms and avalanches in the Sierra Nevada, ... “Catfish Pond,” high in the Sierra Nevada, may have been stocked to feed Chinese workers in the 1860s.

This season has etched its way into the history books as the second snowiest in the 77 years of record-keeping at the Central Sierra Snow Lab — more than 56.4 feet.

A key piece in the Sierra Nevada, north of Truckee, has flipped from private to public land. On Tuesday, the Trust for Public Land announced the completed transfer of 569 acres in Sardine Meadow ...