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QB93Z · 05-29-2017

We continued south then west to Bakersfield on CA-58. We stopped in Tehachapi to see the Tehachapi Loop. It is a very special railroad track alignment that the engineers used to allow trains to make an elevation change at Tehachapi mountain without having to make a long incline along the canyon sides. The track was configured to a loop that crosses over itself to change elevation in a small run of track.

My Dad was a railroad fan and Tehachapi Loop was one of his favorite places. In 1992 when my Dad and I built a O-scale model railroad layout, one of the features I created was a scale version of the Tehachapi Loop. My son made a video of a train climbing the Loop, and then entering a vertical transfer table I designed years later:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_8Hm7wakkY

Jim

05-29-2017	#124
QB93Z Join Date: May 2007 Location: Westminster, Maryland Posts: 3,684	Re: ZR-1 Corvette Road Trip to the Southwest and San Diego We continued south then west to Bakersfield on CA-58. We stopped in Tehachapi to see the Tehachapi Loop. It is a very special railroad track alignment that the engineers used to allow trains to make an elevation change at Tehachapi mountain without having to make a long incline along the canyon sides. The track was configured to a loop that crosses over itself to change elevation in a small run of track. My Dad was a railroad fan and Tehachapi Loop was one of his favorite places. In 1992 when my Dad and I built a O-scale model railroad layout, one of the features I created was a scale version of the Tehachapi Loop. My son made a video of a train climbing the Loop, and then entering a vertical transfer table I designed years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_8Hm7wakkY Jim