A Norfolk Southern stack train with a Union Pacific unit in the motive power consist makes its way around Horseshoe Curve west of Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, Pennsylvania, is one of railroadings’s most notable engineering achievements in the Eastern United States.
Opened on Feb. 15, 1854, the curve has hosted trains of the Pennsylvania, Penn Central, Conrail and now Norfolk Southern. Amtrak’s New York-Pittsburgh Pennsylvanian traverses the curve daily.
Earlier this year NS cleared quite a bit of brush and trees from around the Curve, thus opening some view for photography.
Akron Railroad Club members Ed Ribinksas and Jeff Troutman venture to the Curve in mid October and Ed shares in this post some of his favorite images that he made that day.
Photograph by Edward Ribinskas
Tags: Altoona Horseshoe Curve, Norfolk Southern, NS Pittsburgh Line, Railfanning at Horseshoe Curve
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