Of the two railroad lines through the old pass, one is still in use: the original Western Pacific line now owned by Union Pacific.
In 1906, the Chilcoot Tunnel was constructed beneath Beckwourth Pass by the Western Pacific Railroad as part of its Feather River Route.
The Western Pacific Railroad purchased several of the Six Companies dump cars for company service after the dam was completed and the equipment declared surplus.
Southern Pacific re-designed the engine for general service and it was finally approved, but the government took four of them and gave them to the smaller and power-starved Western Pacific Railroad.
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Supported by a group of investors that included Utah Senator Reed Smoot and the president of the Western Pacific Railroad, planning for the new railway began in 1916, and it was constructed the following year.
With help from his best friend, Phil Berquist (Daniel Stern) and his estranged and strange brother, Glenn (Jon Lovitz), Mitch eventually discovers that Curly's father, Lincoln Washburn, stole a shipment of gold from the Western Pacific Railroad back in 1908, then hid it in the canyons so that one day his son could find it.
In Flanigan, the Fernley & Lassen intersects the original Western Pacific Railroad, then continues on to Wendel, California.