Amtrak in Tehachapi

Due to bridge repair near Santa Barbara on Union Pacific's Coast Subdivision, Amtrak had to detour the Coast Starlight through Tehachapi on June 22, 2008.

I chased the southbound #11 from Bakersfield to the Tehachapi Loop.

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• Coast
• Starlight
• detour
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• Walong
• Tehachapi
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• Trains

[eddog6666]

I only count eight on google Earth. are you sure that the Tracks at Tehachapi Loop is a tunnle instead of a bridge?

[cchan006]

@eddog6666: Tunnel numbers are historic. Might want to read up on Tehachapi history as some of the tunnels no longer exist.

[eddog6666]

@cchan006 Where are the tunnels that no longer exist? I looked everywhere for imformation but no luck.

[cchan006]

@eddog6666: Tunnels 4, 6, 11, 12, and 13 are gone. The information is out there. Not difficult to find by Google.

[jeffdarga100]

Any idea how fast he's moving at the beginning of the vid ?

[cchan006]

@jeffdarga100: Track speed for freights is 60 mph there. My guess is he was going at least that fast, maybe a little faster.

[sweatytoes15]

Thanks for a great video! This route between Mojave and Bakersfield, shared by UP and BNSF, was once the pre_Amtrak route of the great SP train, "The San Joaquin Daylight" and the great ATSF passenger train, "San Francisco Chief"!

[AxeBrand1]

Splendid upload.

Very well done - You have quite nicely and perfectly recorded while following the train.

Thanks for sharing.

[huskinsonjr]

I love trains but traveling on Amtrak Trains sucks.

[TrainDr101]

@eddog6666: Tunnels that still exist: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15. Tunel's 1/2, 4, & 6 were daylighted after the 1952 earthquake, & 11-12 were daylighted at some point. More tunnels could be daylighted in a long range plan by UP to increase double trackage on the hill.

[Yellownealy]

@nashgallo One northbound, one southbound

[nashgallo]

There's 2 Coast Starlights? O.O

[papoocanada]

Marvellous ! so well done! tks

[JohnnyNCindy]

Oh Wow, I live not too far from the Tehachapi Loop and I completely missed it. This is actually the first I’ve heard of this and I have no idea what I was doing at the time to miss such a grand event like this. In fact I would have missed work for this.