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Re: Cali Loop Tour 2002?!



Not a railroad, but possibly the world's most beautiful post office - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Loop Station in Chicago.

At 01:22 PM 3/6/02, you wrote:
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.


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