{"id":32450,"date":"2021-12-11T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=32450"},"modified":"2021-12-10T18:32:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T23:32:20","slug":"horseshoe-curve-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/horseshoe-curve-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Horseshoe Curve\u2014Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My first visit to Horseshoe Curve, Pennsylvania was memorable. It was summer 1981; we arrived in our Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser, and as we got out of the car, I could hear a westward train in the distance with the unmistakeable sound of an SD45 in the lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without wasting a moment, I ran the 200 plus steps from the parking lot to the park in time to catch a Conrail 6100-series SD45 leading a freight passing the former Pennsylvania Railroad K4s Pacific that was then on display at the Curve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward forty years. This November, Kris and visited the famous Curve on an unseasonably pleasant morning. Not long after we arrived, we heard the thunder of a climbing westward freight, and together we enjoyed its circumfrential passage up the valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made these photos as the Norfolk Southern freight squeeled around the famous Horseshoe Curve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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