A report on Reno, Nevada, Nevada and Sacramento, California
Reno is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada-California border, about 22 mi from Lake Tahoe, known as "The Biggest Little City in the World".
- Reno, NevadaBy January 1863, the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) had begun laying tracks east from Sacramento, California, eventually connecting with the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory, Utah, to form the First Transcontinental Railroad.
- Reno, NevadaIts county seat is Reno.
- NevadaAmtrak Thruway Motorcoaches provide connecting service from Las Vegas to trains at Needles, California, Los Angeles, and Bakersfield, California; and from Stateline, Nevada, to Sacramento, California.
- NevadaInterstate 80 (I-80) is the major east–west route, connecting Sacramento with San Francisco in the west, and Reno in the east.
- Sacramento, CaliforniaSacramento is the northern terminus of the Amtrak California San Joaquins route which provide direct multiple-frequency passenger rail service to California's Central Valley as far as Bakersfield; Thruway Motorcoach connections are available from the trains at Bakersfield to Southern California and Southern Nevada.
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Lake Tahoe
2 linksLarge freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the United States.
Large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the United States.
Lying at 6225 ft, it straddles the state line between California and Nevada, west of Carson City.
During ski season, thousands of people from all over Nevada and California, including Reno, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Sacramento, flock to the slopes for downhill skiing.
Sierra Nevada
1 linksMountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.
Mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.
The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily in Nevada.
Because of the large number of airplanes that have crashed in the Sierra Nevada, primarily due to the complex weather and atmospheric conditions such as downdrafts and microbursts caused by geography there, a portion of the area, a triangle whose vertices are Reno, Nevada; Fresno, California; and Las Vegas, Nevada, has been dubbed the "Nevada Triangle", in reference to the Bermuda Triangle.
On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall, a foreman working for Sacramento pioneer John Sutter, found shiny metal in the tailrace of a lumber mill Marshall was building for Sutter on the American River.
Carson City, Nevada
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Carson City is an independent city and the capital of the U.S. state of Nevada.
The majority of the city's population lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra Nevada, about 30 mi south of Reno.
Greyhound Lines stopped their bus services to the town in 2006 and Amtrak discontinued their connecting thruway bus to Sacramento, California in 2008.
California Zephyr
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The California Zephyr is a passenger train operated by Amtrak between Chicago and the San Francisco Bay Area (at Emeryville), via Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Reno.
Nevada: Elko, Winnemucca, Reno
California: Truckee, Colfax, Roseville, Sacramento, Davis, Martinez, Richmond, Emeryville