TEHACHAPI, Calif. (KGET) -- Move over Thomas, and hold onto your caboose cause it's official: Tehachapi is known as Train Town U.S.A.

Peggy YgBuhay with Union Pacific said, ""Union Pacific Railroad does grant Tehachapi, California the title of, "Train Town USA." You can clap.""

The Tehachapi Depot is celebrating 15 years since restoring the museum that was destroyed in a fire in July 2008 caused from bottle rockets.

Tehachapi Mayor, Joan Pogon-Cord, said, "My husband, he was a deputy sheriff at that time, told me. It was like a knife to my heart."

It took $2 million to restore the historic building two years later. The biggest draw in Train Town isn't the museum with one heck of a moving exhibit.

It's the engineering feat, known as the Tehachapi Loop.

V.P. Marlan Woodside with Friend

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