{"id":32531,"date":"2021-12-24T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=32531"},"modified":"2021-12-23T22:07:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T03:07:24","slug":"coal-hoppers-at-horseshoe-curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/coal-hoppers-at-horseshoe-curve\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal Hoppers at Horseshoe Curve"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this November 2021 view at the World Famous Horse Shoe Curve west of Altoona, Pennsylvania, I pictured in classic fashion, a westward hopper train (empty coal train) climbing the Main Line toward Gallitzin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eighty-one years ago, we might have seen an equivalent scene with a pair of PRR L1s Mikados. 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