RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted March 12, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2023 My wife has been kind enough to dig out and scan some prints we took during a two-day visit to the Tehachapi Loop, and Tehachapi town itself, in September 2002. Hope these are of some interest, with a mix of BNSF, UP and former Sante Fe power. On the same trip I also saw a couple of Southern Pacific units near Tehachapi town, but only from a car so no photos possible. While I was photographing the trains, my wife spotted lots of woodpeckers in the area of the Loop: It was a great couple of days, breaking a long drive down from Yosemite to Burbank. I'd go back in a flash. 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium njee20 Posted March 13, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 13, 2023 Would love to go. It’s a shame it’s such a long way from anywhere! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Keith Addenbrooke Posted March 13, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 13, 2023 Great photos - thank you to Mrs Ten for scanning them and @Barry Ten for posting them. @njee20, have you seen the Mark Clay McGowan YouTube channel? He’s an ex-railroad employee who lives in the Tehachapi area so the Loop and Pass is his local line? Worth checking out, Keith. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold scottystitch Posted March 13, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 13, 2023 I visited on a two day stopover in Los Angeles in 2019. We stayed at a hotel at Tehachapi itself and then headed down to the loop one morning en-route Bakersfield to meet a friend. It's a wonderful location, with good access and plenty of good angles, although sitting in a valley, the sun takes a while to get over the ridgeline. Traffic flow is quite high as well. Best Scott. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted March 13, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 13, 2023 1 hour ago, scottystitch said: I visited on a two day stopover in Los Angeles in 2019. We stayed at a hotel at Tehachapi itself and then headed down to the loop one morning en-route Bakersfield to meet a friend. It's a wonderful location, with good access and plenty of good angles, although sitting in a valley, the sun takes a while to get over the ridgeline. Traffic flow is quite high as well. Best Scott. We stayed in a motel and then had a meal in a railroad-themed diner. I seem to remember that of the two times we visited the Loop, one was a lot more active than the other. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted March 14, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14, 2023 Some more: 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted March 14, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 14, 2023 And one straggler. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BMacdermott Posted March 15, 2023 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 15, 2023 Hello Barry Ten Many thanks for the photos - brought back fond memories of my two trips there about 10 years ago. On my first trip, all I saw was a track maintenance vehicle! The second was rather more exciting like your shots. Brian 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted March 16, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 16, 2023 I was "granted" an hour on the loop as we passed through on an 8-hour road journey in May 2022. Got lucky with one up and one down the spiral. Even my non-railway enthusiast companions (Mrs NB and another couple) were suitable impressed by the loop and the length of the trains. There's even a time lapse video on youtube of the same two trains (Not by me!) 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Keith Addenbrooke Posted March 16, 2023 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 16, 2023 On 14/03/2023 at 16:23, Barry Ten said: This is probably just me, but at first glance I thought this photo was of a very good model (N-Scale). Must be the way the light falls on the hills behind - giving them the appearance of a backscene (to me at least). Hope you don’t mind, Keith. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted March 16, 2023 Share Posted March 16, 2023 (edited) Tehachapi live Webcam. Dark cold and wet at the moment. https://www.youtube.com/c/TehachapiLiveTrainCam/live Visited in 2000 with wife and son. We stayed in this motel for 2 nights, and asked "for a room with a railroad view" - which the wife loved (not) as helper locos were cut off here during the night on several freight trains !! https://www.wyndhamhotels.com/baymont/tehachapi-california/baymont-inn-and-suites-tehachapi/overview?CID=LC:BU::GGL:RIO:National:09600&iata=00093796 Tehachapi is a nice little town with all the amenities and the railroad runs alongside it. There was back then a nice model railroad store there also. The loop is a few miles to the north and is well worth visiting, best viewed from the Woodford Tehachapi road above it. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Tehachapi,+CA+93561,+USA/@35.1967854,-118.5367113,1795m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x80c1f63459df4611:0x4fa974d6b84a9cd4!8m2!3d35.1321877!4d-118.4489739!16zL20vMHFfaHk Brit15 Edited March 16, 2023 by APOLLO 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Barry Ten Posted March 16, 2023 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted March 16, 2023 1 hour ago, Keith Addenbrooke said: This is probably just me, but at first glance I thought this photo was of a very good model (N-Scale). Must be the way the light falls on the hills behind - giving them the appearance of a backscene (to me at least). Hope you don’t mind, Keith. These are also out-of-the-box models with no weathering: 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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