| Baera HC. Here is the seventh of twelve original photos by an unidentified photographer that were taken at the Horseshoe Curve near Altoona, Pennsylvania, c. 1946. Shown here is Pennsylvania Railroad engine #6832, an M-1 (4-8-2) "Mountain" built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in September of 1926 and retired in January of 1954 after 28 years of service. In this context, it's pulling a manifest freight train around the Curve and down the Allegheny Mountains to Altoona and points East. (Track 4) |