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Tehachapi Loop, Kern County, California, May 30 2026 (Black and White Image)
Three BNSF locomotives at frame center make their way from left to right eastbound down grade after having just summited Tehatchapi Loop, crossing over cars of their own train in the process. The sunlit automobile transport car portion of the train is moving right to left as it appears from behind the triangular-shaped mound at center. In the distance on the right are cars of the same train that have passed through the unseen tunnel moving left to right as they approach the mound at center. 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 Fuji G690 medium format camera employing a Fujinon 65mm f8 wide angle lens on Kodak black and white film.
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