tripledigitken
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Where are these people?
They're looking at a train obviously, but precisely where are they? It's a very unusual location, and that's the only clue you get.
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motoged
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Copper Canyon rail trip....
Oh, I guess not....as this is posted as "non-Baja travel".
New Mexico or Arizona is my next guess....
[Edited on 4-15-2015 by motoged]
Don't believe everything you think....
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tripledigitken
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motoged,
Wrong country......, not NM or AZ.
[Edited on 4-15-2015 by tripledigitken]
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It's obviously not in the U.S. and in a more civilized country.
Why do I know this?
The train cars are not full of graffiti. 
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
George Bernard Shaw
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tripledigitken
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Howard,
Wrong country was a response to ged's post. It is in US, but not AZ or NM. Point taken re grafitti.
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mtgoat666
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tehachapi
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Taco de Baja
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Tehachapi
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-Herbert Spencer
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BornFisher
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North of San Luis Obispo?
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durrelllrobert
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Yes, between Mojave and Bakersfield
Bob Durrell
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tripledigitken
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Tehachapi it is. It's called The Loop, if you look closely the train enters the loop at "3 o'clock" and exits at "3 o'clock". Gaining the 77' in
that short distance allows the trains to ascend the pass. Very interesting thing to see. It is between Mojave and Bakersfield on Highway 58.
[Edited on 4-15-2015 by tripledigitken]
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It's called the Tehachapi Loop, a 0.73-mile long spiral, or helix, on the Union Pacific Railroad line through Tehachapi Pass, of the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern
County, south-central California.
Here's a map of the Loop.
[Edited on 4-16-2015 by StuckSucks]
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Very windy in Tehachapi.
The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
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durrelllrobert
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Necessary because of the women's prison there 
Bob Durrell
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I took this photo of the wind farm just west of Tehachapi, where the wind is actually made:
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Wind farmers. Producing the finest wind for decades.
The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
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Hemingway put a bullet in his brain when he just couldn't stand being on the planet one more minute (Kurt Vonnegut said he defined the literary period
with that particular way out). I'm going over the wall into the Women's Correctional Facility at Tehachapi. I don't care about making a statement,
coining a word -- just want to finish with the clan doing what got us here. (and this time, no competition)
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Quote: Originally posted by Osprey  | | Hemingway put a bullet in his brain when he just couldn't stand being on the planet one more minute (Kurt Vonnegut said he defined the literary period
with that particular way out). I'm going over the wall into the Women's Correctional Facility at Tehachapi. I don't care about making a statement,
coining a word -- just want to finish with the clan doing what got us here. (and this time, no competition) |
Whoa ... deep!
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For the train to cross over it's self there must be at least 50+ RR cars.
52 was what I was told. I think that is with 4 engines. There is a side road that gets you a really good view from the SW side. However the gate is
usually locked. The site from the two lane highway is OK but not as good.
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My brother is a rail fan. I'll have to share this with him! Thanks!
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tripledigitken
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Why the loop?
The reason for the loop was an economic decision at the time. In an effort to obtain an operable grade the engineer had to "make distance" to achieve
a gradual grade slope. This design saved the company a huge amount of construction expense. The engineer designed a loop around one of the peaks
near the summit, which gained 77 feet in .7 of a mile. At the time (1875) it was a new technique that saved a great amount of excavating cuts and
fills.
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