An August Sunday Afternoon on Horseshoe Curve's West Side on the NS Pittsburgh Line

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Channel: AliceInChains243 · 2009 · Autos & Vehicles

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8/9/09: After shooting trains into the early AM hours the same day at the Cassandra All-Nighter, I decided to take it easy the day after and sleep in til around 9AM. BUT, that DIDN'T mean I wouldn't be fanning the rest of the day! Nope, once I got my act together I decided to "treat myself" to fan one of the greatest locations on the face of the earth. That's right, YOU guessed it, the world famous Horseshoe Curve. 

There are 3 main ways to view all the action around the Curve. 1) from inside the HSC Park in the middle, 2) up on the ATV trail on the east side, and 3) up on a wooded hillside on the west side. I decided to take the most difficult and physically strenuous view, which is option #3. Hiking up an 80 degree hillside about 100 feet up will eventually bring you out to an ATV trail, which when followed brings you out to the hillside to where this view is obtained. Is it worth the hike and aggravation in the high humidity and pounding August heat? You'd better believe it is.

12:39PM: 13G
C40-9W's #'s 9184 / 9282

(Skipped over the geeped-up 18G that ran at 1:10. That one gets its OWN video :)

1:24PM: 650
C40-9W's #'s 9853 / 9889
(Helpers: SD40-2's 3354/3343)

 1:47PM: 28Z
SD70M-2 #2715
ES40DC #7555

2:07PM: 21M
C40-9W #9591
C40-9W #9541
SD70M-2 #2757

West Side of Horseshoe Curve - Altoona, PA
NS Pittsburgh Line - MP PT 242.1

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