There are few places in the United States that are better for train watching than California’s Tehachapi Loop. Whether it be ...

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 — An eastbound BNSF freight train derailed around 2:30 a.m. Saturday just west of the series of rail tunnels that parallel Highway 58, sending some rail cars down a 100-foot embankment. Two ...

I visited the Tehachapi Pass Railroad on Wednesday. A plaque there says in part: "The Tehachapi Pass Railroad line was cut through solid and decomposed granite by up to 3,000 Chinese laborers from ...