Railfan Bob on the HorseShoe Curve..Video #2

[cvgeeps]

Pushers dont fail me now!!

[Heyde1979]

from New york how would I get there what is the best route to Horseshoe curve

[Guser223]

Where in NY?

[Heyde1979]

Westchester County NY

[Guser223]

I'm not sure on how to get to the Curve from there. If you know how to get to Scranton, PA. Basically, you go to 81S, to 80W, then 99S.

[Heyde1979]

thank you very much for the info you did a great job filming this video

[Guser223]

Your welcome, I didn't film this video. But, I do have my own videos.

[Heyde1979]

sorry about that

[Guser223]

It's ok

[Guser223]

that was 1 long train, lots of Conrail Blue, love it!!!

[1petealmquist1]

Why type of leslie is that?

[dm9150]

Sounds like the helpers are doing more of the work than the SD80's. It's sounds like the whole train was going to stop.

[o00o00ozy]

Oh! Good memmories! I love this video as well as your other Horseshoe Curve videos. Hoooaah for SD80MAC's! You're lucky, when I was there (2003), all the trains I saw were downhill / eastbounds including a sweet triple meet!

[DASCO2136]

From what i heard is that NS is using their 80MAC's on local coal trains in the Cresson area. Their abusing their power and using SD70M-2s and C40-9Ws to do their work. I think NS should give their SD80MACs to CSX. They'll use them for better work

[XNAVYIC]

I sure appreciate any Videos of the Conrail 80MACs I see. Thanks for the post.

[snowgoosebob]

The HorseShoe Curve is the east/west main line and is near the top of the Allegheny mountains in western PA. It's located about 6 miles from Altoona, PA. The uphill grade up the Allegheny mountains is 91' per mile. BNS owns the east/west main line now.

You can read more about it with pictures at...

www[dot]northeast[dot]railfan[­dot]net/horseshoe[dot]html

[bnsffreighttrain]

Whats the location of this? What town is near? Thanks...Greg Awesome video!!!!

[BoxcarFrank]

I had a feeling it was something like that

[snowgoosebob]

You sure was quick on that reply BCF! LOL

I was posting a 3 part reply and you replyed within seconds on reply part 1...LOL

[BoxcarFrank]

You must like PCLX covered hoppers alot! You zoomed in on every car! You did this in your other vid too. I'm the same way with RailBox box cars ;)

The wrecked tank car and the Conrail Bay window caboose add a nice touch.

[snowgoosebob]

BC Reply Part 1

I live in southern NJ and work In the glass industry (30 years in all). Part of My job is unloading raw-material from rail-cars (25 rail-cars per week) most of all soda-ash. Soda-ash comes from mines in Wyoming. All the soda-ash going to glass factorys in the NE passes through the Horse Shoe Curve going east bound on that East-West main-line. IN the mid 1990's most of the soda-ash was loaded in PLCX and ACFX cars.

[snowgoosebob]

BC Reply Part 2

What I was trying to do is see if those cars I was focusing on was empty since they was going west bound and and see if they was unloaded at the glass factory I work at. Then when I got back to work I would check a log book for rail-car's numbers to see if those cars was onloded at our plant, none was from our plant.

[snowgoosebob]

BC Reply Part 3 (Last)

For our Glass Plant there is always 30 loaded soda-ash cars on the rails in the pipe-line at all times going east bound. If I saw those same cars going east bound loaded then I would check rail-cars tracking reports at work to see if any of those cars was ours heading to NJ.

[conrailman1]

the best damn locomotive Ever built , not like the nasty old Uboats and the C40's, , i miss running them Monsters , they always took a while to load up but once they pulled you where gone