One of the seven railroad wonders of the world is the Tehachapi Loop. It is a .73 mile long spiral or helix through the Tehachapi Pass that was finished in 1876. It is still used today with about 36 trains running the loop daily. If a train is at least 4000 feet long which is about 85 boxcars it passes over itself at the tunnel. The picture below we copied from the internet to get an aerial shot, but the rest I took on my Android phone camera. We realized half way to the loop that we had forgotten the regular camera.
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| Tehachapi Loop |
This sign marks the best lookout point for the loop.
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| Loop Sign |
We waited about 1/2 an hour not knowing when or if a train would be coming through soon. Several other people starting showing up. Then we heard the train coming up the mountain! You can't see it because the tunnel is hidden in the left of the picture but the train is crossing itself!
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| Train in the Loop |
The train is starting to loop itself here. It was a long train! If you click on the picture it will blow it up bigger for you.
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| Looping Train |
The train is now pulling out of the helix and continuing up the mountain.
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| Loop |
After the loop we continued down the hill and went into old town Tahachapi to the old train station. The same train was just arriving in town.
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| Train Station |
The loop was really cool and we were glad a long train came through while we were there. Terri, make sure Scott gets up here to see this!!
Love you all!
1 comment:
You know the man loves trains!!
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