Horseshoe Curve
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| Working its way up the Allegheny Divide, the freight train strings its cars the entire length of Horseshoe Curve. May 29, 2001. 2:30 PM Eastern Time |
Soft Coal heading east on Track #1 down the Allegany Divide.
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Two NS C40-9Ws locomotives lead the coal down the grade. Note: Revisions to this page made by Jim Keener, October 11, 2002. |
| On the south side of Horseshoe Curve, heading east down the Allegheny grade, the four SD40-2s locomotives work the train of soft coal through the Horseshoe Curve, viewed from the west escarpment overlooking Horseshoe Curve, |
| Conrail Locomotive 3331 and Norfolk Southern 3368 pushing west up the grade, crossing Kittanning Run on Horseshoe Curve, May 29, 2001. 6:30 PM Eastern Time. No smoke plumes exhausted from the hard working diesels stacks. Roaring hell to beat the band, the locomotives demand respect as they pass. But in the weeds along the tracks, large coal clinkers from the fire box of a mighty steam locomotive, remind the modern locomotives who forged the road upon which they ride. As for the sounds of those steam monsters bellowing as they climbed the Allegheny Mountains, causes one to shudder when imagined. |
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Location Map of Horseshoe Curve, Blair County, Pennsylvania, Altoona. |
James E. Frizzell
Post Office Box 595
Kimberton, Pennsylvania 19442
e-mail: jimmy@jim-frizzell.com
date posted: June 03, 2001.
last revised:
August 22, 2007
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