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Train video's eh ??

Here's one for ya BD.

The Tehachapi Loop
The Tehachapi Loop is a .73 miles (1.17 km) long 'spiral', or helix, on The Union Pacific Railroad line through Tehachapi Pass, of the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, south-central California. The railroad line connects Bakersfield in the San Joaquin Valley to Mojave in the Mojave Desert.

The Tehachapi Loop was originally built and owned by Southern Pacific Railroad, with construction starting in 1874, and the first train to use it reaching Los Angeles in 1876

The Tehachapi Loop takes its 'loop' name from the circuitous route it takes, in which the track passes over itself, a design which lessens the angle of the grade. The loop gains a total of 77 feet in elevation as the track ascends at a sustained 2% grade.[2] A train more than 4,000 feet (1.2 km) long (about 85 boxcars) thus passes over itself going around the loop.

This video shows a huge train as it tackles the Tehachapi Loop, with ease, no surprise with Seven Locomotives up front to pull it over the top towards Mojave with 111 wagons in tow.



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PS- sorry if it puts some of you to sleep, I'll go back to lurking now. lol