On April 11, John Drye, Brian Brendel, Jake Brendel and Bernard Kempinski were in Altoona to see Steven Strassberg, the $15M man pitch for the Harrisburg Senators. While they were there, they did some railfanning on the PRR Horseshoe Curve, demolished several buffets and generally had a good time. This film clip covers some of the highlights, except for Jake's lost Peanut.
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Bernie's videos help illustrate the intensity of activity on the mountain. The two helper sets we saw at the east portals returned up the west slope later on the coal train filmed at Carney's Crossing.
ReplyDeletePretty much the same as back in the 50's. We'll have to shoot the 1/160 video on the layout once we get those parts finished.
Oops. Actually, the helpers in the Carney part of the video are two different pairs from the ones at the Slide. So, thats a total of five helper sets captured in about two hours. Those four plus another set on the stack train. World's busiest mountain railroad, indeed.
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