PRR Horseshoe Curve HAH!

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Nice photo: had seen the track diagram of the Loop Junction area many years  
ago, but until now never a photo.  Similar loops on the early 1900's  western 
approach to Stevens Pass on the GN (actually two loops in a distance of  5 
miles).  And two locations on the Cumbres and Toltec; a single loop at mp  330 
(Tanglefoot Curve), and a double loop at mp 296 - 297, known as The  Whiplash.
 
Interesting to me; sometimes modelers try to work out track plans so we  
CAN'T see both ends of the train; but the prototype did it to overcome a grade  in 
a constricted space.  And we have not even mentioned spirals in which  one 
track crosses above another !
 
Jerome Crosson
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