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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.
Afterwards, in 1957, it was refurbished and put on static display next to the PRR's famous Horseshoe Curve in Blair County, Pennsylvania. Restored to operating condition for excursion service in 1987, No. 1361 and its other surviving fellow K4 locomotive, No. 3750 , were designated as the official state steam locomotives by the Pennsylvania ...
A horseshoe curve is a means to lengthen an ascending or descending grade and thereby reduce the maximum gradient. Grade or gradient is defined as the rise divided by the run (length) or distance, so in principle such curves add to length for the same altitude gain, just as would a climbing spiral around one or more peaks, or a climbing traverse (cutting) wrapping around an end of a ridge.
The black trace in this map forming a hairpin turn above the Lakes is the famous & historic Horseshoe Curve built by the Pennsylvania Railroad which crosses over four different streams sitting in the bottom end of water gaps in the view, and finishes its climb in a fifth, seen below in the next (zoomed out) map, just north of a sixth Blair Gap ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 09:05, 8 October 2018: 312 × 310 (23 KB): Beyond My Ken {{NYPL-image-full |ImageTitle=The Horseshoe Curve, Pennsylvania. |AlternateTitle='Perfec' stereograph. 13250. |Creator=H.C. White Co. -- Photographer |PublishedDate=c1907 |Coverage=c1907 |Medium=Gelatin silver prints |SpecificMaterialType=Photographs |ItemPagePlate=25 |Source=Robert N ...
Leaving Altoona, the railroad travels at a 1.76% grade up the east slope of the Alleghenies, negotiating the famous Horseshoe Curve during that climb. Past the curve, the Pittsburgh Line continues to climb a grade of 1.86% to the small town of Gallitzin , where the mainline reaches the top of its climb at 2,167 feet (661 m) above sea level, the ...
Horse Shoe Curve is an unincorporated community in Clarke County, Virginia, United States. The community is located on a horseshoe curve on Route 679 7 miles (11 km) east-southeast of Berryville and has had a tavern since the early 1900s.
It ran west, crossing the Allegheny Ridge approximately 5 mi (8 km) west of Altoona at Kittanning Gap, later the location of the Horseshoe Curve railroad site. The path ran northwest through Cambria County, passing east of Carrolltown.