The Tehachapi Loop has carried trains through the mountains for nearly 150 years. Here's the engineering story behind this ...

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 ...

TEHACHAPI, Calif. (KERO) — A group looking to create a viewing platform for the Tehachapi Loop has succeeded in reaching its goal of raising $100,000. The loop, built in 1876 by the Southern Pacific ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TEHACHAPI, Calif. (KGET) — Move over Thomas, and hold onto your caboose ’cause it’s official: Tehachapi is known as Train Town U.S ...

What goes around comes around when you talk technology in Tehachapi. Not the 21st century kind, depicted by the 5,000 futuristic-looking turbine propellers that line mountaintops east of town and spin ...

Rufus and Dianne Thomas were married on June 26, 1966, in Las Vegas, Nevada. They lived in Bakersfield from 1966 to 1969 ...

An eastbound BNSF train with 98 mixed cargo cars derailed early Friday just after its lead engine entered Tunnel No. 9 at the Tehachapi Loop in the Tehachapi Mountains. No injuries were reported.

According to Cheryl Wilson, member of the Tehachapi Arts Commission, the small town of Tehachapi is a growing art center in Southern California. “We’re going to have an artist event soon, which will ...