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Re: Cali Loop Tour 2002?!

>At 9:05 PM +0000 3/6/02, max valentino wrote:
>>near here is  famous landmark (historical marker) for a thing 
>>called "The Tehachapi Loop" it is a length a railway, where when 
>>they were building the first RR's in the west, it was the first 
>>place where engineers designed the tracks to "loop" over itself in 
>>order to gain altitude and make it over the mtns.
>
>There is a similar railroad loop in British Columbia and another in 
>New Zealand.

...and in switzerland. To mount to St Gottardo, you enter the tunnel, 
drive for a while, and then come out in the same place, but higher, 
you see the beginning of the tunnel right below, its quite amazing!
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