Back in the days before it became a national park with rangers ensuring your eternal safety, one could access the backside, the outer portion of the Horseshoe Curve. Doing so in August of 1986 en... (more)
Conrail 3323, 3639 stenciled CR but still in Reading Lines colors, and 3230 lead an intermodal west around Horseshoe Curve. PRR 1361 K4s is still on display at the Curve.
The new wide cab face of the mountains shoves a long 21M around the curve and over the hill.
The squeal of 6-axle flanges from a pair of U-Boats announce the passing of pushers down-bound, returning to Altoona for their next push westbound up the curve. U25C 6502 and 6536 a U-30C.
Shoving hard on the tail-end CR 6341 and SD45-2 6655 are knuckled onto a CR bay-window caboose, westbound up Horseshoe Curve.
Helper set.
77 cars, 3 locomotives, 1 shot: The train is the southbound lodaded L22 photographed at horseshoe curve in Santa Lucia city. The grade is about 2%. The mid DPU AC44i is just behind the tree at the... (more)
An eastbound intermodal descends the east slope through Horseshoe Curve.
An afternoon westbound mixed freight approaches the crowd of visitors lined around the World Famous Horseshoe Curve.
An afternoon westbound empty hopper train approaches the crowd of visitors lined around the World Famous Horseshoe Curve.
NS train 21J comes west around the World Famous Horseshoe Curve with the Interstate heritage unit trailing.
The Memory RemainsThe NS OCS climbs west through Horseshoe Curve, passing the remains of the second derailment on the curve for July. Thankfully, it seems NS learned their lesson an... (more)
