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The "new" Horseshoe Curve?!

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The "new" Horseshoe Curve?!
Posted by steve-in-kville on Thursday, February 20, 2020 11:45 AM

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Thursday, February 20, 2020 12:52 PM

Evidently still quite a bit of track work still to be done ?  Is there going to be a CP at ythat location or hand throw switches ?

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Posted by PJS1 on Thursday, February 20, 2020 1:05 PM

steve-in-kville

Great video!  Looks like it may have been shot from a drone!  Agree?

I wonder how the trains got across the river before the new bridge?  Also, which direction is the train shown in the video heading?

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Posted by steve-in-kville on Thursday, February 20, 2020 1:12 PM
It would be coming from the south. When we did our Jim Thorpe excursion back in July, just the pillars were there.

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, February 20, 2020 1:23 PM

Not exactly 'high speed' railroading.

Never too old to have a happy childhood!

              

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Posted by York1 on Thursday, February 20, 2020 1:31 PM

Great video.  It's an impressive shot from very high that catches the entire train on both sides of the river.

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Posted by Juniata Man on Thursday, February 20, 2020 1:58 PM

BaltACD

Not exactly 'high speed' railroading.

 

 

With the possible exception of BNSF's intermodal service; what is?

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Posted by Overmod on Thursday, February 20, 2020 2:01 PM

PJS1
I wonder how the trains got across the river before the new bridge?

Remember that this is a connection between two wildly different historical railroad plants which at one time were fierce competitors.  

Prior to the Nesquehoning bridge, the power would have to be run around the standing train, with all the fun that implies, to go back south on the 'other' side.

I believe the train is going south on the west (Jim Thorpe) side of the river, back toward the Reading/Philadelphia area, and that the red skew truss bridge goes over the line to the Lehigh Gorge about which there was so much consternation last year...

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Thursday, February 20, 2020 2:02 PM

PJS1
 
steve-in-kville

 Nah!  Just some guy on stilts.

 

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Thursday, February 20, 2020 2:28 PM

Not quite a "new" Horseshoe Curve, more like an "N" scale version of the old one. Wink

Great video, though!  There's some beautiful country up there, isn't there?  I'd love to see the videographer re-shoot it in the autumn.  

And man, that is ONE long train!  

I wonder what the fishing's like in that river...  Hmm

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Posted by Electroliner 1935 on Thursday, February 20, 2020 6:12 PM

You would not want to operate any train that long on a curve like that at high speed. Can you say "STRING LINING"? Beautiful video.

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Posted by PJS1 on Thursday, February 20, 2020 6:50 PM

Semper Vaporo
 PJS1  steve-in-kville 

Great video!  Looks like it may have been shot from a drone!  Agree? 

Nah!  Just some guy on stilts. 

That's what I thought, but I did want to confess my ignorance in a public forum.  

Now, for the next round of BS...........

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