Pennsylvania HSR is a blog that addresses restoring rail passenger service and creation of high speed rail passenger service for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and other states. Of great interest is the Keystone Corridor West (Pittsburgh to Harrisburg) and the Keystone Corridor East (Harrisburg to Philadelphia). This is the former mainline of the defunct Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) now owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railroad Company (NS) west and Amtrak east.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
1954 100th Anniversary Flashbulb Photo - Horseshoe Landscape
The photographer is looking in a northwesterly direction. The Sylvania Company manufactured flashbulbs for photography. They had embarked upon an advertising campaign demonstrating the capability of their product. A westbound passenger train in the foreground stopped for the photograph. A new freight locomotive is to the right of the passenger train. Around the Horseshoe Curve in the distance at Kittanning Point are newly manufactured freight cars from the Altoona Works.
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