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Tehachapi Mountains - Kern County  2023

Taken from the edge of the Starbucks lot as we were heading north on highway five. Crows seen as black specks against the mountains.

Tehachapi #2

Dining Room - Tehachapi  2016

Darlene's - Tehachapi  2016

I scouted around for a while, took some pix, then got back into the car and headed east to Mojave.

Tehachapi #1

Beekay Theatre - Tehachapi  2016

Bobs Barber Shop - Tehachapi  2016

I always manage to stop at the railroad town of Tehachapi just off highway 58. This time, no trains appeared. Annoying.

More Tehachapi Train Photos

Santa Fe - Tehachapi  1972

Caboose - Tehachapi  1972

At least, I'm pretty sure these were taken up near the Tehachapi Loop. How nice to see an actual caboose, with cupola! Added bonus: actual Santa Fe diesels. Extra special added bonus: no graffiti.

(Reason for uncertainty: no photo showing trains crossing over one another. I'll have to go back there next visit to nail this one down.)

Autumn Journeying

Tehachapi Loop - Tehachapi  2012

Tehachapi Loop Mural - Tehachapi  2012

When autumn came, he knew that part at least of his heart would think more kindly of journeying, as it always did in that season.

Mike too, emulating Frodo, chose to embark upon an autumn journey this year, bound for the summit of Chicoma Peak in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico via a somewhat circuitous route.

First stop was in the mountain town of Tehachapi, also a hardcore railroad town noted for its proximity to the famous Tehachapi Loop. Mike was pleased to find a railroad museum featuring an aerial schematic of the loop and a mural depicting one of Southern Pacific's cab-ahead articulateds climbing the grade.