© Dr. Galen Royer Frysinger
Rail USA
Truckee, California
Old Truckee Jail
Galen, “The Traveler", in his student days
(1949).
was offered a free overnight stay here by the Sheriff
as he was hitchhiking across the U.S.
Truckee grew as a railroad town originally named Colburn Station, starting
with the Transcontinental Railroad. The railroad goes into downtown Truckee and
the Amtrak passenger lines still stop there on the services from Chicago to San
Francisco.
