A "Sound of Music" setting. Singing rails are music to my ears!
The perfect "horseshoe"
Only an aerial view does justice to the "other" horseshoe curve.
An eastbound coal drag leaves the horseshoe curve at Mance on the way down to cumberland, MD
An eastbound "Shooter" climbs the loop
Traintime on the Transcon. A pair of intermodals pass 20 miles east of Kingman, AZ.
Westbound rack train climbs the east slope of the Alleghenies on the "other" horshoe curve at Mance, PA.