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Rail Guide to the Horseshoe Curve
Rail Guide to the Horseshoe Curve
Copyright 1976
28 pages
Some highlighting. Staining under the bottom staple. Staples are starting to rust.
60 Million gross tons per mile - That is how the Penn Central's main
line is described in the AAR statistics. The line between Harrisburg, Altoona and Pittsburgh, Pa. is in a class all by itself. It may well be true that some of the longest and steepest mountain railroading exists elsewhere in the U.S. but none compare for tonnage and frequency of movements. The traffic volume sets apart the Horseshoe Curve and the east slope of the Allegheny Mountains from all other mountain segments.
No other spot gives the train watcher more entertainment than does the Horseshoe Curve. The fifteen mile stretch of mainline provides the train watcher an experience unequalled. The four track main line handles in excess of 60 million gross ton miles a year.
If you have never visited the famous Horseshoe Curve, visualize for a moment the steady stream of trains moving up and down the four track main line. The treat to the train watcher is fantastic. Any time of the day you could be met
with sounds of straining engines. The greeting of two or three or even four trains passing before you passing east and west is an experience that all railfans should be exposed to during their life, if but for once.
Eighty car solid piggybacks making 15 MPH up grade without a helper; 105-car coal drags drifting downgrade in a cloud of brake shoe smoke, behind the whine of dynamic braked controlled power; Seventy and eighty car ore trains with four to six units on the point and four units pushing on the rear sanding the rails; this is Horseshoe. Between 70 and 100 trains a day, on and on the parade is endless.
Horseshoe offers the greatest show on earth for the railfan - A photographer's delight.
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