On the day trains observation cars are provided, and the hour is one of delightful, restful and enchanting scenes.

The Truckee River is never out of sight and again and again it reminds one in its foaming speed of Joaquin Miller's expressive phrase: See where the cool white river runs.
Before 1900 this ride used to be taken by stage, the railway having been built in that year.

It is interesting here to note that the rails, the locomotives, the passenger and freight cars were all transported bodily across the Lake from Glenbrook, on the Nevada side.
There they were in use for many years mainly for hauling logs and lumber to and from the mills on the summit, whence it was "flumed" to Carson City.
In those days logging was carried on in the Truckee River Canyon and the visitor would often have the pleasure of seeing logs "shoot the chutes" into the river, by which they were floated to the mills at Truckee.

Here is a picture: Tree, bush, and flower grow and blossom upon either side; and a little bird, with a throat like a thrush, warbles a canticle of exquisite musical modulations, so to speak.

But the most stirring sight of all is the system of logging carried on by the mill companies.