Tehachapi Live Train Cams at the Tehachapi Loop 🚂

🙂 Welcome to Tehachapi Live Train Cams! We currently have a total of 5 live streaming cams on the Tehachapi Pass/Mojave Sub including our Tehachapi Loop cam (here), our Cable cam, our Edison cam, our Mojave cam and our Tehachapi Depot Railroad Museum cam all of which you can visit by clicking here:    / @tehachapilivetraincam  

FRA safety map ~ https://fragis.fra.dot.gov/gisfrasafety/

Tehachapi pass description ~ http://www.donwinter.com/Railroad%20I...

Loop History info ~ https://ascelibrary.org/doi/pdf/10.10...

Loop guide ~~ https://www.railfanguides.us/ca/tehac...

Two tracking at tunnel 10 ~ https://www.trainmaster.ch/XC-50.htm

We are truly honored to be the feature story in the Union Pacific Railroad Track Record! You can read the article here: https://www.up.com/customers/track-re...

If you are planning a trip to Tehachapi, instead of staying at a hotel, consider staying with us at the Cable Cam 🏡 Airbnb location which is located right between the Loop and Depot Cams! Click here for more details: http://BedandTrains.Tehachapi.Live

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This YouTube Livestream went up on November 23, 2019
The camera model used at this location is the Dahua SD8A840VI-HNI

We would also like to give a special thank you to Creative Wireless for providing the internet service to run the Tehachapi Loop Live Cam!

The Tehachapi Loop is a 0.73-mile (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 line connects Bakersfield and the San Joaquin Valley to Mojave in the Mojave Desert. Seeing a daily average of almost 40 trains, the line is one of the busiest single-track mainlines in the world.

With its spectacular scenery, the Loop is one of the prime railfan areas in the country. There's plenty of private property in the area, and trespassers are not welcome. A good vantage point is the site of the Tehachapi Loop historical marker. In 1998, the Loop was named a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark and is now California Historical Landmark number 508.

One of the engineering feats of its day, the Loop was built by Southern Pacific Railroad beginning in 1874 and opened in 1876. Contributors to the project's construction include Arthur De Wint Foote and the project's chief engineer, William Hood.

On the loop, the track passes over itself, lessening the grade. The loop gains 77 feet (23 m) in elevation as the track climbs at a steady 2% grade. A train more than 4,000 feet (1,200 m) long thus passes over itself going around the loop. At the bottom of the loop, the track passes through Tunnel 9, the ninth tunnel built as the railroad worked from Bakersfield.

BNSF Railway also uses the loop under trackage rights. Union Pacific bars passenger trains from the line, which prevents Amtrak's San Joaquin train from serving Los Angeles.