≡
  • Information
    • News & Events
    • Membership
    • Links & Sources
    • Contacts & Info
  • Historical Society
    • Membership
    • Store
    • Annual Posters
    • Projects
    • Help Us
    • What's in Your closet?
    • Imp. Documents
  • Heirloom
    • The Heirloom by year
  • Photographs
    • Historic Photo Collection
    • Galleries
  • Brochures
  • History
    • Exhibits
    • 20 Mile Museum
    • Historic Hikes
    • Intro Donner Summit
    • Stories
    • Book Reviews
    • Historical Documents
    • Tales from the Menu
    • Historical Maps
    • Historic Snowfall
  • Home

Transcontinental RR book reviews
High Road to Promontory
Railroad Photos of Alfred A. Hart
Rails, Tails, and Trails
   CPRR Sacramento to Reno)
Donner Pass
     Southern Pacific's Sierra Crossing
From the Valley to the Summit
A Great and Shining Road
Empire Express
Railroaded -Transcontinentals and the Making of America
Waiting for the Cars
Westward By Rail, 1871
Finding Hidden Voices of the
      Chinese Railroad Workers
Railroad Phootographs of Alfred A. Hart
Pacific Tourist, 1884
Race to Promontory (2018)
The Inside Man - Mark Hopkins
Iron Muse
Ghosts of Gold Mountain
The Chinese and the Iron Road
Alta California RR Gde 1871
Out West on the Overland 1877
Voices form the Railroad
Crossing - Chinese RR workers novel
The Chinese Must Go

"In 1854 locomotives had great mileage: 16 miles to the cord of wood. On each tunnel face while constructing their 15 Sierra tunnels the railroad used 150 lbs of candles per month per face and 1500 feet of fuse. "

Home Contact Us

© 2016 Donner Summit Historical Society