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The museum's rolling stock [45] includes Pennsylvania Railroad 1361, a K4 steam locomotive that stood on static display at the Horseshoe Curve from June 8, 1957, until September 1985. It was restored to operating condition but suffered an axle failure within a year.
A topographic map of the area around the Horseshoe Curve. Horseshoe Curve is 5 miles (8 km) west of Altoona, Pennsylvania, in Logan Township, Blair County.It sits at railroad milepost 242 on the Pittsburgh Line, which is the Norfolk Southern Railway Pittsburgh Division main line between Pittsburgh and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Horseshoe Curve: Altoona: Blair: Laurel Highlands/Southern Alleghenies: Transportation - Railroad: Visitor center with displays and views of the railroad horseshoe curve: Houdini Museum: Scranton: Lackawanna: Northeastern Pennsylvania: Biographical: Historic house with exhibits about Harry Houdini, also offers magic shows Hoyt Center for the ...
Altoona (/ æ l ˈ t uː n ə / al-TOO-nə) [9] is a city in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States.The population was 43,963 at the time of the 2020 census. [10] It is the principal city of the Altoona metropolitan area, which includes all of Blair County and was recorded as having a population of 122,823.
No. 1361 being transferred from Horseshoe Curve on September 16, 1985. On September 16, 1985, PRR's successor Conrail and Assemblyman Richard Geist removed No. 1361 from its display site and moved it to the Railroaders Memorial Museum (RMM) in Altoona for its fifth anniversary.
The Allegheny Portage Railroad was the first railroad constructed through the Allegheny Mountains in central Pennsylvania.It operated from 1834 to 1854 as the first transportation infrastructure through the gaps of the Allegheny that connected the midwest to the eastern seaboard across the barrier range of the Allegheny Front.
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The Gallitzin Tunnels in Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, are a set of three adjacent tunnels through the Allegheny Mountains in western Pennsylvania. They were completed in 1854, 1855, and 1902 by the Pennsylvania Railroad as part of the cross-state route that includes the nearby Horseshoe Curve to the east.