Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Tropical storm Hilary had a tremendous impact on Southern California and the Tehachapi Valley. Most obvious was the impact it had on curtailing Mountain Festival activities. Less obvious was the impact the storm had on the Tehachapi Depot Railroad Museum. While not quite as horrific as the 1932 rains and floods, Hilary was more subtle. Most people are not aware that under the freight room of the depot, there is a basement. In the basement there is a drain in the floor created to capture any cond...
"The Oil Cans" exhibit recently opened at the Tehachapi Depot Railroad Museum. Oil was at the center of things through all of the 20th century, and the railroads made it possible. History wove the stories, and it's time to untangle them. That's what this exhibit does. The new exhibit stretches the entire width of the west end of the Depot Freight Room. Linking all its displays is a model of one train, a lost local icon. A new oil pipeline over the Tehachapis had been economically and...
