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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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, ...