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The Tehachapi City Council has approved plans for two events happening in August — one at Philip Marx Central Park and the other in Centennial Plaza and adjacent areas along

The Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce its 59th Mountain Festival on Aug. 19, 20 and 21.

Timmy Boyd paints trains for a living. The locomotives and cars he coats with shiny colors aren’t full size — and yet they’re way too large to fit on the kind of train set that a child, or a dedicated rail fan of any age, might set up in the basement rec room. Boyd works at Titan Trains, a small factory tucked away inside a mostly empty industrial building across from the historic Boones Mill train depot, part of a complex that also holds the town government offices. The business...

BOONES MILL — Timmy Boyd paints trains for a living. The locomotives and cars he coats with shiny colors aren’t full size — and yet they’re way too large to fit on the kind of train set that a child, or a dedicated rail fan of any age, might set up in the basement rec room. Boyd works at Titan Trains, a small factory tucked away inside a mostly empty industrial building across from the historic Boones Mill train depot, part of a complex that also holds the town government of...