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 ...

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 ...

The mountain community of Tehachapi is about a 45-minute drive from Bakersfield via Highway 58. It’s described by the Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce as an oasis located between the San Joaquin ...

TEHACHAPI, Calif. (KGET) — Move over Thomas, and hold onto your caboose ’cause it’s official: Tehachapi is known as Train Town U.S.A. Peggy YgBuhay with Union Pacific said, “Union Pacific Railroad ...

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 first allowed passenger trains to journey from the Bay Area to Los Angeles ...