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The Tehachapi Loop is without doubt one of the great engineering feats of the nineteenth century. Civil Engineer William Hood designed the 3,799' loop to a maximum gradient of 2.2% to raise the rails to gain the nearly 80' required. It is one of the seven wonders of the railroad world.








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