The World Famous Horseshoe Curve, Altoona Pennsylvania
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- The Horseshoe Curve is a three-track railroad curve on Norfolk Southern Railway's Pittsburgh Line in Blair County, Pennsylvania. The curve is roughly 2,375 feet (700 m) long and 1,300 feet (400 m) in diameter. Completed in 1854 by the Pennsylvania Railroad as a way to reduce the westbound grade to the summit of the Allegheny Mountains, it replaced the time-consuming Allegheny Portage Railroad, which was the only other route across the mountains for large vehicles. The curve was later owned and used by three Pennsylvania Railroad successors: Penn Central, Conrail, and Norfolk Southern.
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it would be nice for senior/ disabled if they would fix the funacular sometime soon.
Nice! and you even got a horn salute from the coal train.
Thanks ever so much for bringing my childhood memories back to me. My dad worked on the Pennsy after WWII, and lost his life in a train wreck near Loretto, PA in 1955. We would go to the Curve waiting for him to return after his shift was over, then drive down to pick him up. We lived in Sinking Valley, After his death my mother moved us to Florida, but when we go visit relatives, we would always go to the curve to watch the trains. My last visit was in 2005, and the Altoona Mirror did a story on the accident and interviewed my sister and I.
Couldn't miss the red light you drove through. Why do it? And why include it?
It was green, and turned red like 5 seconds after I was on the move.
My wife Linda and I toured horseshoe just a week after your video but were not able to make it up the stairs. Thank you for your track level view completing our memory.
I have seen one newspaper article, dated November 12, 2023, that the funicular (incline) is expected to reopen "in the next two months."
Hopefully that will happen.
One more observation I love the common Tesla fuel. How true. They say that if 10% of the cars and trucks driven today were electric that the grid system we have right now couldn't handle it. I personally don't know how having an electric car has affected the individuals who have to charge it on a daily basis. I'd be interested to know that. There was a fellow many years ago who said that each time a fuel changes its form there is a marketed decrease in the total energy that's produced at the end of the line. Personally I think the best way to handle the power required for electric cars in the future will be nuclear power plants, unfortunately. The good old gasoline combustion engine will be here for a while.
When you were walking through the gift shop, due to the floorboard noise, it sounded like well maybe Bigfoot was your cameraman. I was expecting a giant Crunch and then the cameraman disappearing through the war
Wonderful,I would give one finger to spend 1 day there in the 40s...
Wow amazing. Than you so much for the history the Horseshoe Curve. Really appreciated. One of these day I will make it there to visit.
Correction - #7048 is a GP9, not a GP4.
Allow me to quote Wikipedia for further perspective: " The EMD GP9 is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division between 1954 and 1959. The GP9 succeeded the GP7 as the second model of EMD's General Purpose (GP) line,[1] incorporating a new sixteen-cylinder engine which generated 1,750 horsepower (1.30 MW).[2] This locomotive type was offered both with and without control cabs; locomotives built without control cabs were called GP9B locomotives.
EMD constructed 3,626 GP9s, including 165 GP9Bs.[3][4] An additional 646 GP9s were built by General Motors Diesel, EMD's Canadian subsidiary, for a total of 4,257 GP9s produced when Canadian production ended in 1963.[3] The GP9 was succeeded by the similar but slightly more powerful GP18.[5]".
The GP line was introduced in late 1949 as an alternative to EMD's highly successful line of streamlined freight and passenger locomotives. Streamliners had begun to fall out of favor after World War II because they were not well-suited for switching duties. Engineers often had to stick their heads out of the cab window in every type of severe weather to see hand or lantern signals from crewmen on the ground as they assembled or tied onto waiting train consists. The road switcher eliminated that problem by replacing the full-width cowl or carbody with narrower hoods that just covered the prime mover, generator, and other equipment, greatly improving visibility in the warm, dry confines of the cab. EMD and other builders ceased production of streamlined freight diesels by 1960.
Back in 60's was a pull up hot dot, ice cream place. Deal was if you could finish the banana split lunch was free. Even back then when I could force myself, I couldn't finish it.
I was just there this weekend, quite a site! Got to see a Norfolk Southern train with 9 engines pulling 191 cars! The lift is still broken as of 5/18/24 so we had to take the stairs.
I was on amtrak coming from Huntington going around Horseshoe Curve. I was a little scared but fascinated at the same time!
I didn't hear much about it until the Amtrak conductor pointed it out and gave a brief history lesson
I was so touched to see people waving at us while I was on the train
Last time I was there with my wife the incline was for the handicap. I guess they do not need to see it . Ño train for you ! ! 😮
Coal IS Tesla fuel. I wish the Democrats would realize that.
I have a very old picture of the Horseshoe Curve in my dining room.
My son and his wife are up there as we speak. Thank you for the tour. Great video!👍👍
Love yur tesla fuel comment
That loco is a GP9
You blatantly ran a red light.
It turned red like 2 seconds after it turned green!
I know it must be kind of narrow, but are there any sightings to be used for Runaway Train at the downhilll side? I've seen CSX trains on that horseshoe curve, does any other major rail lines use it? At last question are there any restrictions to what can and cannot run on that curve? Thank you it was a very nice video.
The Horseshoe Curve tracks are owned by Norfolk Southern. I'm sure that other railroad lines (such as CSX) can use them with permission. Amtrak trains use the HSC as well.
Another one in Hyde Park Pa is pretty wild too.
One of my favorite places
There was never a GP 4 and it wasn't an oil burner, it was diesel fuel.
A slang term. Yes, it was diesel. And you are right. It was a GP-9.
You run red lights often?
No, just every once in a while.😁
That is nice climb up all those steps to the top of the grade. A rest would be required after getting up there! Thanks for the video.
I was there in the early 1990's It was very exciting.
I think that train was over 2 miles long>
You should do a separate video of the floor boards.
Oops I got a question. What's the average number of trains that use that curve on a daily basis?
I have no idea.
Great video 👍🏽