Conrail looked great in the 1990s and traffic moved right along over the mountain. Here symbol OIPI snarls through MG interlocking on the east slope with one of the daily succession of manifests o... (more)
MG was so sequestered a location that one only heard bird calls punctuating the silence until a distant westbound's locomotives began to fill the valley below Horseshoe with the sound of power. Ev... (more)
Slope to Slope:
NS 4020 leads intermodal train NS 257 west around Horseshoe Curve, as the train begins its upward climb up the mountains and toward the crest of the grade in Gallitzin, PA.
Curve Coal:
NS 9770, a whiteface Dash 9, leads a loaded coal train down the slope toward Horseshoe Curve, as the train is soon to be greeted by loads of railfans all wanting to hear the train gri... (more)