Located about an hour’s detour away for travelers driving Interstate 5 between San Francisco and Los Angeles, present-day Tehachapi owes its existence to the railroad. While the Kawaiisu people had ...

I had college alumni work to do this spring in Tehachapi (Yes, you’ve heard of it, but where is it exactly?), so I decided to spend the weekend. Instead of heading for the Sierras on California 14, I ...

Two trains on the Tehachapi Loop at the same time. The one in the foreground, which is going down the loop, will slow to a halt to let the train coming up the loop pass it. (Rebekah Kearn/Courthouse ...

A passenger train will travel through the Tehachapi Loop on Sunday for only the third time since 1971, when regular passenger rail service through the Tehachapis was stopped. The northbound and ...

Located just south of the Sequoia National Forest and just north of Los Angeles, UP said that Tehachapi is home to a railroad engineering marvel: the Tehachapi Loop. “The 0.73-mile section of track ...

It took me two days to finally see a train on the Tehachapi Loop, the 3,799-foot-long rail spiral in Southern California that ...