Two Amtrak trains carrying 400 people got stuck today in the mountains of Northern California near Donner Pass, agency officials said. No injuries were reported. The trains had been stuck since 2 p.m.

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 ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Train Simulator 2021: Donner Pass - Southern Pacific Route Donner Pass: Southern Pacific puts you to the test on this world-famous railroad where engineers ...

The Tahoe region has seen a deluge of snow this December. After about 2 feet fell at the start of the month, back-to-back storms slammed the Sierra over the weekend, dumping a further 4 feet of snow ...

Following completion of a 12-month clearance project “designed to move customer products over a shorter, faster, and more efficient route,” Union Pacific’s Donner Pass route is open to doublestack ...

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, ...

RENO — It’s ironic so many American success stories happened at a spot named for one of history’s iconic failures. But that’s how it is with the Donner Pass near Truckee, Calif. The first wagon train ...