Does anyone knows what Tehachapi rail served industrys are? On Google maps I saw a tank car covered building facility, a large sand or cement factory. (Couldn’t tell by the structure) with a lot of 2 or 3 bay cylinder covered hoppers. (Form the sky they look like 2 bay to me). The last time I saw it there was a power plant, but when I looked again it was gone. I hope I’m not losing my mind.
Some help would be nice.
One of the industries you’re seeing sounds like the cement plant at the timetable location called Monolith. it’s photographed often and there are a lot of photos on various railfan sites, such as http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locThumbs.aspx?id=15917 .
I was on Google Maps looking at aerial views of Tehachapi and saw two train wrecks between the town and the loop. Interesting.
The place with the tank cars is Chemtool.
The cement plant is Lehigh Southwest Cement (formerly Calaveras Cement). It receives coal in open top hoppers for the kilns. That is probably what you thought was a power plant.