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Tehachapi Loop, Kern County, California, May 30, 2026
Seven bright orange BNSF engines, three heading eastbound down grade left to right, and four heading westbound up grade right to left, approach each other at frame center. Emerging from the barely visible tunnel beyond the approaching engines are the last cars of the east bound train which has just crossed over itself to summit Tehachapi Pass. No other present-day scene in American railroading rivals Tehachapi Loop. In just two years beginning in 1874, two civil engineers designed and 3000 Cantonese Chinese laborers built a network of tunnels and bridges over Tehachapi Pass including the famed loop seen here. 30 to 40 trains per day transporting mostly intermodal container freight and bulk goods pass this way–empty westbound containers returning to the Port of Long Beach to be loaded on ships returning to China and eastbound intermodal containers loaded with goods destined for consumers all over the US. To witness rail traffic at this place for just a few hours is to understand the immensity of trade between the US and the Far East, China specifically. Along with similar container traffic on mostly double-track from the Port of Oakland in northern California through Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska and points east, it is clear that the railroads play a vital role in moving goods throughout the enormous US consumer market. Taken with a Nikon D850 DSLR using a Nikkor 16-35mm zoom lens at 16mm, this is a super wide view of the loop.
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