Above: outside the Soda Springs Hotel. The Hotel served as a bus station as did the store across the street and the Norden Store up the roa (all for different companies). Today no buses stop on Donner Summit.

Left: Thrift Baker grocery store opposite what is today Donner Ski Ranch. The store served the hundreds of Summit railroad workers and other Summit residents. Today there are no railroad workers based on the Summit.
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Soda Springs Hotel & buses
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