Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 29—Tehachapi City Hall, once a leading local critic of California's bullet train project, has tentatively given its blessing ...

The Tehachapi Loop is one of California’s most important feats of railroad engineering. Built in the 19th century, it allows trains to climb steep mountain terrain by looping over themselves. Still in ...

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 ...

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has prepared a draft environmental impact report (DEIR) for the Tehachapi Rail Improvement Project in Kern County, Calif. The $106.7 million ...

Located about an hour’s detour away for travelers driving Interstate 5 between San Francisco and Los Angeles, present-day Tehachapi owes its existence to the railroad. While the Kawaiisu people had ...