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Donner Pass is a 7,056-foot-high (2,151 m) [2] mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake and Donner Memorial State Park about 9 miles (14 km) west of Truckee, California. Like the Sierra Nevada themselves, the pass has a steep approach from the east and a gradual approach from the west.
All traffic over the summit moved since then over Track #2 about one mile south of Donner Pass and crosses the summit through the 10,322-foot long Tunnel #41 (built in 1925) running under Mt. Judah between Soda Springs and Eder. (The west portal of the Summit Tunnel appears in the lower right corner of each image.) 1869 "Russell" Image
The tunnel opened to traffic on September 19, 1925 as the third-longest rail tunnel in the United States at 10,325 feet (2 mi; 3,147 m) in length. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The new tunnel and cutoff shortened the route by 1.29 miles (2.08 km) and was 132 feet (40 m) lower in elevation than the previous bore through the summit, Tunnel No. 6.
The railroad tunnels are a spot drivers on Interstate 80 over Donner Summit can see coming and going from Lake Tahoe.
California Highway Patrol pleaded with drivers to not attempt to cross over Donner Summit on I-80. “Officers have been responding to stuck motorists all day,” the CHP Truckee division wrote in ...
The California Department of Transportation attempts to keep Donner Summit (Interstate 80, I-80), Echo Summit (U.S. Route 50, US 50) and Carson Pass (State Route 88, SR 88) open year-round. Most other passes at higher elevation than these are usually closed during winter, with opening and closure dates varying based on snowfall and available ...
I-80 west (Alan S. Hart Freeway west) / unsigned SR 89 spur to Donner Pass Road – Sacramento: Southern end of I-80 overlap; dumbbell interchange: 14.97 [N 3] 186: Central Truckee (Donner Pass Road) No northbound entrance: 16.29 [N 3] 188A: Truckee (Truckee Way) Northbound exit and southbound entrance: 16.60 [N 3]
A mysterious photo taken by a traffic camera in Washington has gone viral after it was shared to Twitter earlier this week. The snapshot, which was captured by the Washington State Department of ...