Tehachapi

Tomorrow, Annette and I are going to a train trip on the Coast Starlight to Sacramento.  The appeal of this trip is that the train will be going through Tehachapi.   Until this year, Amtrak had rarely run trains through Tehachapi.  In fact, maybe 4 or 5 trains total since 1971.  This week, they are running 4 trains and have run 8 trains prior.  This trip isn’t quite as rare as it was but the trip will still be fun.  This will be “rare mileage” for me since I’ve never ridden a train over these tracks.  As a kid, my dad and I would watch trains in this Tehachapi mountains.  I will be looking for the ghosts of us.

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