Now is the time to hop on board Amtrak’s long-distance California Zephyr and see the amazing ... day’s train for the five-ish hour ride to Tahoe. The train departs daily from Emeryville ...

The Bay Area once had a ski train to Tahoe that whisked day trippers ... the all-railroad California Zephyr or a Capitol Corridor train to Sacramento with a bus connection. A word about the ...

There’s just one daily train that goes all the way to the mountains, the California Zephyr, which leaves the ... the Snowball Special to Lake Tahoe in 1928 and semi-regularly to Donner and ...

The Lake Tahoe area is buckling under hundreds of ... Amtrak passengers exit the icicle-rimmed Truckee depot as the long-delayed California Zephyr train arrives, Thursday, March 9, 2023.