"Steam on Horseshoe Curve" DVD Sunday River Productions 

The clip with the 2 Baldwin Centipedes - pure joy

I watched these live at the Curve in the early 1950’s!

The glory days of the Pennsy what a show!

I have never seen the Horseshoe Curve in person. But when I was a kid I can remember seeing postcards picturing it. I couldn't believe it. Soooo huge. Thanks for posting this video.

in heaven there is still steam-power!

In my opinion, Sunday River doesn’t get enough credit for these videos, they did an outstanding job with them.

I wish I could go back in time. The PRR had the highest amount of different Locomotives.

Wow,thank you!

Observing Pennsylvania rr steam power operating on the Horseshoe Curve location is incredible, the PRR had a great variety of steam power on their locomotive roster. I do wish that the Pennsylvania rr did however preserve one of their J1 class 2-10-4 type locomotives to be placed on display somewhere, it's a true shame that none of the J1 steam engines still exist as I find that class of locomotive very interesting.

The glory days of railroading

It must have been quite a show! I’m sorry I missed it!

Thanks airing and sharing the outstanding vid.Bliss

Love watching these Powerful Steam Engines! I grew up with that sound and I loved it. As they would steam by with black smoke puffing out of of its stack my brother and I would run and hide behind our house, so the black smoke so it wouldn't get directly overhead. LOL! That was our little version of Hide and Seek. My grand parents Hay & Corn fields were our back yard playground and every summer we would wait for the spark from the train to set the field on fire. It was no big threat someone always got to it in time to put it out. Those were the days when all Our neighbors watched out for each other. 😊 The station was about 2 miles away we'd wait to hear the chug chug starting up and knew the faster it chugged the closer it was getting.

an amazing collection of heavies pulling and pushes

1:40 = those were some of the strangest looking diesel locomotive wheel arrangements I've ever seen. I found some info on them, they are: Baldwin twin unit Centipede diesel-electric locomotives, also called 'Baldwin DR-12-8-1500/2'

Interesting that Train #19 required both an M1 AND Centipede helpers where a single T1 of all things was recorded on tape pulling the train unassisted!

Beautiful work...

damn I was born in the wrong era...

...and then there were none

I was almost to late to see these fire breathing giants. I was born mid July in 1952 I don't remember where it was or the train line but I remember being next to one of these oil or coal burning locomotives I think I was about 5 or so it didn't scare me even with the noise I was in AWE of the giant ahead of me. I grew up in and around Greenville Pa., that is between Pittsburgh and Erie by about 70 miles each. By this time diesels had all but taken over for progress.

love the curve

Pennsylvania Steam Locomotives 🚂 around the Horseshoe Curves with the freight and passenger trains.

still waitin on the Trainz Forge route of the horseshoe curve to be released i know there are other routes but they aint gonna be as big as this route that TF is about to make and god its just gonna be what it was back in the 50's F7's K4's T1's all kinds of prr you can imagine well maybe not the rare prr but definitely a bunch of old prr stuff also gotta have GG1

I was looking at the description of this DVD on the Sunday River Productions website. it says that this DVD features E-6 Atlantics. If anyone has the DVD would they let me know if the 460 is one of the E-6 Atlantics featured? It was the engine that raced a plane to New York and became known as the "Lindbergh. Engine." Would be very nice if this particular E-6 was filmed in this DVD going around the curve. Bob Mohler

i love how ONE steam locomotive is pulling TWO heavy diesel locos that just shows how under powered diesel is anymore XD

I wonder if the bowl the horse shoe track was in had good winds, 50+ trains a day would spew lots of bad air.

Don't have this one I will have to pick it up.

Decapods (which need some double heading or triple heading due to freight traffic in the year 1940)

Hmmm a city water supply right next to a railroad.........

52 passenger trains a day. now there's what 4? What a lose.

Can anyone tell me please what type of diesel are they in the treble header at 1.40. I'm guessing from the bogies that they are a GE type? Cheers from a British enthusiast.

1:40. Were those BP60s or BH50s?

Does anyone have the full DVD? I was looking at it on the Sunday River Productions website and it said that E-6 Atlantics are filmed going around the curve. Would no. 460 be one of them? That's the locomotive that became famous for racing a plane. J. Harold Mohler

Is it true there was a sawmill on the curve?

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1:40 check out the Baldwin centipedes

When I think of steam battling gradients the Curve isn't at the top of my list. I think of 2-6-6-6's at Allegheny Summit, T-3's and Santa Fe's on Sandpatch and Big Boys on Sherman Hill. Also Raton Pass and Tennessee Pass and Marias Pass.

just goes to show current pa. vehicle emission laws are a scam.these old girls put out more emissions than all the cars in pa. combined if they all ran for 10 years nonstop.but you cant renew your tags with a older slow responding oxygen sensor.