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    The Virginia and Truckee Railroad (stylized as Virginia & Truckee Railroad) is a privately owned heritage railroad, headquartered in Virginia City, Nevada...
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    Virginia and Truckee Railroad No. 11, the "Reno", is a surviving 4-4-0, "American"-type steam locomotive. It is one of three largely identical 4-4-0 locomotives...
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    Donner Party (category Truckee, California)
    the Sierra Nevada but became trapped by an early, heavy snowfall near Truckee Lake (now Donner Lake) high in the mountains. Their food supplies ran dangerously...
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    Pyramid Lake is the geographic sink of the basin of the Truckee River, 40 mi (64 km) northeast of Reno, Nevada, United States. Pyramid Lake is the biggest...
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    The Virginia and Truckee 18 Dayton is a historic standard gauge steam locomotive on display in Sacramento, California. It spent its working life on the...
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    scripted television shows have filmed in Glenn County.[citation needed] The list of movies filmed in Nevada County's Truckee is too extensive for this page...
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    Virginia and Truckee Railroad No. 22, also known as the "Inyo", is a 4-4-0 "American" type steam locomotive that was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works...
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    of Washoe County. Sitting in the High Eastern Sierra foothills, in the Truckee River valley, on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, it is about 23...
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    Our Hospitality (category 1923 films)
    grouchy train engineer and Joe Roberts as Virginia's father.The film was shot in Truckee, about 485 miles north of Los Angeles, and was decorated to recreate...
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    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...
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    Truckee River Basin, and its sole outlet is the Truckee River, which continues on to discharge to Pyramid Lake. Because of the sensitivity of Truckee...
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  • Whispering Smith (category 1948 films)
    Virginia & Truckee Railroad of Carson City, Nevada. The set was later re-used in many later TV shows and films, including Bonanza. The film was not released...
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    Charlie Chaplin (category British film production company founders)
    Chaplin began filming the picture in February 1924. Its elaborate production, costing almost $1 million, included location shooting in the Truckee mountains...
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    April Stewart (category People from Truckee, California)
    Minecraft: Story Mode. April Destiny Stewart was born on April 1, 1969, in Truckee, California. She was raised by her father Freddie Stewart, a singer in...
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    California. The community is located on Bear Creek, a tributary of the Truckee River 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Tahoe City, at an elevation of 6,480 ft...
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    visual artist from San Diego, California, and former member of the bands Truckee Brothers and Wirepony. His debut solo album, ‘Fürst In The Dirt’, was released...
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    (uncredited) Chaplin attempted to film many of the scenes on location near Truckee, California in early 1924. He retained only the film's opening scene. For two...
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  • unpredictable and versatile it virtually makes up for the film’s many dull patches." The Truckee Sun gave the film an F, writing, "Given the family's chaotic and...
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  • California, USA Though it is never mentioned by name, the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, which ran from Reno to Carson City, may have served as the inspiration...
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  • the film was shot during the winter in the Donner Pass near Truckee, California, which helped with the verisimilitude." Horror News.Net gave the film a...
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  • and confusion of the production. For the wrecked train, the Virginia and Truckee Reno locomotive was to be laid on its side against an embankment. Despite...
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    John Lasseter (category American animated film directors)
    Pixar films through 2018. From 2006 to 2018, Lasseter also oversaw all of Walt Disney Animation Studios' (and its division Disneytoon Studios') films and...
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  • late January 1953 and was completed on March 2. Filming took place partly at Donner Lake, near Truckee, California in the Sierra Nevada range. The California...
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  • Godless (miniseries) (category Television shows filmed in New Mexico)
    Tantoo Cardinal as Iyovi, Alice's Paiute mother-in-law. Samuel Marty as Truckee, Alice's son. Scoot McNairy as Bill McNue, the sheriff of La Belle, a town...
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  • established the segment of the California Trail, from Fort Hall, Idaho, to the Truckee River Joseph Thomas Walker (1908–1952), pioneer in forensic science Joseph...
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  • Truckee River, and was named after the local Washoe people. In 2018, parts of the park were used alongside nearby South Lake Tahoe Airport as filming...
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    northwest of Tahoe City along California State Highway 89 on the banks of the Truckee River near Lake Tahoe. It is home to Palisades Tahoe (formerly Squaw Valley...
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    Win Butler (category People from Truckee, California)
    Arcade Fire with Josh Deu and his wife Régine Chassagne. Butler was born in Truckee, California, and raised in The Woodlands, Texas, with a Latter-Day Saint...
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    daughter Dixie was involved in a head-on collision with a semi truck near Truckee, California. Dixie was pronounced dead at the scene. "The Beastie Boys...
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    Old Tucson Studios (category American film studios)
    and Angie Dickinson. The Reno, a steam locomotive from the Virginia and Truckee Railroad on static display in the park, was also badly damaged. Fire control...
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