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. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz