The Tehachapi area is known for the nearby Tehachapi Loop ( a popular railfan site ), Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm, The Indian Point Ostrich Ranch, the Tomo-Kahni State Historic Park and Tomi-Kahni Resource Center ( Native American ), and excellent air conditions for gliding.

* 1952: A difficult year for the SP in California opens with the City of San Francisco train marooned for three days in heavy snow on Donner Pass ; in July an earthquake hits the Tehachapi pass, closing the route over the Tehachapi Loop until repairs can be made.

The San Joaquin does not continue south of Bakersfield because the only line between Bakersfield and points south, via Tehachapi Pass, is one of the world's busiest single-track freight rail lines.

Most of Route 14 is loosely paralleled by a main line of the Southern Pacific Railroad, used for the Antelope Valley Line of the Metrolink commuter rail system as well as a connection between Los Angeles and the California Central Valley via Tehachapi Pass.

The Tejon Pass is a mountain pass, between the southwest end of the Tehachapi Mountains and northeastern San Emigdio Mountains, linking Northern California via the Central Valley to Southern California.

This original Tejon Pass, was 15 miles to the northeast of what is now Tejon Pass, in the Tehachapi Mountains, at the top of the divide between Tejon Creek Canyon in the San Joaquin Valley and Cottonwood Creek Canyon in Antelope Valley.

The Tehachapi Loop is a long ' spiral ', or helix, on the Union Pacific Railroad line through Tehachapi Pass, of the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, south-central California.

Tehachapi Pass is at the northeast end of the Tehachapi Mountains where they meet the southern Sierra Nevada range.

The area east and south of the pass is home to the Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm, one of California's larger wind farms.

The Tehachapi Mountains are also crossed by Tejon Pass at the southwest end of the range.

The Tehachapi Mountains and Tehachapi Pass in 1869.

Eastern Tehachapi Pass with the Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm.

Keene is located northwest of Tehachapi, at an elevation of 2602 feet ( 793 m ).

Tehachapi () is a city in Kern County, California, in the Tehachapi Mountains, at an elevation of between the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.

At an elevation of 1499 feet ( 457 m ), the community is located at the foot of a road grade known as The Grapevine that starts at the mouth of Grapevine Canyon at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley and ascends the canyon to the Tejon Pass in the Tehachapi Mountains via Interstate 5 ( formerly U. S. Route 99 ).

The railroad feature known as Tehachapi Loop is about west of the summit.

Oroville-Thermalito hydroelectric facilities furnish about one-third of the power necessary to drive the pumps that lift the water in the aqueduct from the delta into the valley, and then from the valley over the Tehachapi Mountains into coastal southern California.

Red Rock Canyon is an approximately unit within the Mojave Sector of the Tehachapi District of the California State Park System, located along State Highway 14 in Kern County, about east of Bakersfield and north of Mojave.

The remainder is then powered over the Tehachapi Mountains via a pump lift.

Pseudotsuga macrocarpa, commonly called the bigcone Douglas-fir, is an evergreen conifer native to the mountains of southern California, occurring from the San Rafael Mountains in central Santa Barbara County and the southwest of the Tehachapi Mountains of southwestern Kern County, south to Julian in San Diego County.

The term is also applied to the area north of the Tehachapi Mountains.

Southern California is separated from the rest of the state by the east-west trending Transverse Ranges, including the Tehachapi, which separate the Central Valley from the Mojave Desert.

The Mojave Desert is bounded by the peninsular Tehachapi Mountains on the Northwest, together with the San Gabriel and the San Bernardino Mountains on the Southwest.

The Central Valley is wide, the Sierra Nevada to the east and the Coast Ranges and San Francisco Bay to the west, as far south as the Tehachapi Mountains.

Bear Valley Springs is both a census-designated place ( CDP ) and Community Service District in the Tehachapi Mountains, in Kern County, California, United States.

Bear Valley Springs is located in the greater Tehachapi area.

Golden Hills is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in the Tehachapi Mountains, in Kern County, California, United States.

Keene ( formerly, Wells ) is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Kern County, California in the foothills of the Tehachapi Mountains at the southern extreme of the San Joaquin Valley.

Keene is located in the greater Tehachapi area.

He is buried at 29700 Woodford Tehachapi Rd, Keene, CA 93531, on the campus of the UFW headquarters.

Tehachapi is east-southeast of Bakersfield, and west of Mojave.

The California Correctional Institution maximum security prison, also known as Tehachapi State Prison, is in the area ; as is proximity to Edwards Air Force Base.

It is now on the National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP )— and was the oldest building in downtown Tehachapi until it burned in June 2008.

Tehachapi is known for its four-season climate.

Downtown Tehachapi is from the White Wolf Fault, from the Garlock Fault and from the San Andreas Fault.

Tehachapi is best known for the 7. 3 1952 Kern County earthquake on the White Wolf Fault in 1952.

The Tehachapi Mountains (), regionally also called The Tehachapis, are a mountain range in the Transverse Ranges system of California in the Western United States.

The mountain is north of Bear Valley Springs, and west of the Tehachapi Loop, a spiral on the railroad line through Tehachapi Pass.

In 1856, Lieutenant Williamson, on a railroad surveying party, " discovered " that the pass, sometimes named " Williamson Pass ", could provide the lower grades to make Los Angeles-Central Valley train travel possible by the roundabout detour all the way to Mojave, and over Tehachapi Pass, almost 70 miles farther than the direct Interstate 5 used today by trucks and autos.

In 1876, seven years after the transcontinental railroad was finished, the rail line was laid down Soledad Canyon, linking LA to the north, after a 6, 000 foot tunnel through San Fernando pass ( still used by Metrolink ) and the extraordinary Tehachapi Loop, where trains circle on grades over top of themselves to gain altitude.

Taking Route 66 to Barstow or Los Angeles and crossing the Tehachapi or Tejon passes, they began new lives as fruit and vegetable pickers on truck farms in the San Joaquin Valley.