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Railfan Bob on the HorseShoe Curve..Video #1

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Uploaded by on Oct 19, 2006

(Sorry, no trypod.) Video taken on the HorseShoe Curve in Altoona,PA in May 1995. Video starts with a westbound train going upgrade with 2 head locomotive's with no helpers on rear, followed by a westbound train (going downgrade) meeting the eastbound train on the curve. Eastbound train has 3 head locomotive's and 2 locomotive helpers on rear.

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  • I wish there were some videos of Horseshoe during the last years of the Pennsylvania Railroad...circa 1966-1968....SD40's, SD45's, etc. They seem to be nonexistant.

  • @meccaturbo

    I would love to see those also! All I got is memories of back in the 60's, visiting my grandparents in Johnstown. They hand a house on a hill with a back porch that had a great view looking down onto the 4 track mainline. Also a great view of the local trains going in & out of the stealmills. I spent many hours on that back porch. And when mom & dad said time for bed, I would peak out the bedroom window watching trains. In bed the sound on the trains put me right to sleep!

  • Nice! Thanks for sharing

  • Your Welcome BF!

    I spent 8 hrs there that day. I shot Video of about 30 trains. 75 to 100 trians go by each day. Even though I uploaded 3 train videos I got better ones then this of that day. But My device I use to tranfer vidoes from VCR Or Camara went bonkers on Me. As soon as I get another device I will upload the rest that are even better then this!

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  • @iceman977th No problem! It's good we can all enjoy trains :)

  • @meccaturbo I know that now lol. that was back when I was just starting railfanning again. :P

  • @iceman977th No, the second helper is an SD45-2.

  • The altoona area used to be the third busiest railway in the world. I used to go there when I was a little kid. That's how I fell in love with trains.

  • Love the horn on the second train's leader

  • @JSTONE9352 Not everything has to be grafittied on

  • Its just Horseshoe not HorseShoe

  • Notice the lack of graffiti on railcars back then, apparently that was not

    the thing to do in 1995.

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