The Pennsylvania Railroad

A section from Herron Rail's series "Glory Machines Vol. I" about the Pennsylvania Railroad. "Glory Machines" is pretty damn good, I must say. Lots of good vintage footage in here of PRR steam on Horseshoe Curve.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• I1
• J1
• M1 mountain
• pre-WW2

[mocus1]

I'd say that was shot in the 50's.

[dcoursey82]

@mocus1 It doesn't say in the program when this was shot, but it's doubtful it was shot anytime after 1947, since that was when PRR began the "modernization" of it's steam fleet...(switching headlight and generator positions, cast drop pilots)...and all the engines in this video still have the old configuration. My guess is early to mid 40's.

[adtrains75]

where do you get Glory Machines Vol. I?

[dcoursey82]

@adtrains75 There's an annotation at the beginning of the video telling who made it...it's Herron Rail Video.

[timboz1986]

@trmania Yea he definitely said central

[italianirish10]

LIONEL SUCK'SS MTH PREMIER #1

[italianirish10]

love my MTH ELECTRIC TRAIN AS THIS K-4 PRR I LOVE THE MOST ENTIRE TRAIN IS MTH........ MY FAVORITE ELECTRIC TRAIN MTH PREMIER..................

[bullfrog1954]

Love those K4s! Built an HO model from a kit-weighs almost as much as the Lionel O27 engines!

Great classic trains! Who needs that darn Acela??

[mikesavago]

@thegliderguy

I was just going to say the same thing.

[thegliderguy]

Check out the Olivers at 1:51 definately late 30s early 40s. I cant put it into words how much I wish I could have been there.

[trainguy3]

you have no idea how much i wish i could have seen these in person

[indie1361]

The good old days!

[saintangerinc]

was there a siding on horse shoe at one time?

[juneshopper]

Nice vid, even if it is old. I've been around Horseshoe Curve on PRR as a kid, when my parents & I traveled to NYC. It was long after steam was no longer being used, but I do remember the conductor coming thru and calling out "Horseshoe Curve" and everyone moving over to the other side of the coach car to look out the windows at this engineering marvel.