Tehachapi: SR-58 - Summit
Established around a railroad station, Tehachapi became a mountain community near Tehachapi Pass. It stands in the Tehachapi Mountains, where a high, dry route links the San Joaquin Valley with the Mojave Desert. State Route 58 crosses the pass, providing a road connection between Bakersfield and communities farther east. The historic rail line is celebrated for the Tehachapi Loop, an engineering landmark where trains gain height by circling over their own track. Downtown retains the scale of a railway town, while the surrounding ridges support extensive wind-energy development. Tehachapi’s identity is shaped less by a single monument than by this working passage through inland Southern California.
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Tehachapi has served as a rail and road crossing in California's Tehachapi Pass since the late nineteenth century. Set between the southern Sierra Nevada and the Mojave Desert, the city occupies a high, dry mountain corridor long used to link inland California with the south. The Tehachapi Loop, completed in 1876 for the Southern Pacific Railroad, remains a celebrated feat of rail engineering: its track makes a broad curve and passes over itself. Wind turbines across the pass also reflect the area's importance to California's wind-power industry. Discover other points of interest through webcams located across Tehachapi Pass and Kern County.
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