Santa Fe train 975 is rolling through tunnel No. 8 east of Cliff on July 12, 1979. The train has engines 5625, 8078, 8736, 3234, and 3401 and is headed to Dallas, TX as a run thru with the KCS for New Orleans. Tunnel No. 8 is blasted out of solid rock and only has a liner at the portals. It is 689 feet long. You can see that the railroad is in a rather precarious position along here. The SP had to use concrete retaining walls because the hillside was so steep. There is a 500 foot drop-off to the bottom of the canyon. Within two miles, Tehachapi Creek will only be about ten feet below the track at the west end of Rowen siding.

Tunnel Index

Train 901 at tunnel No. 9