| Excursion. Here is an original photo that I took of a Pennsylvania Railroad train below the Muleshoe Curve on the New Portage Branch Line west of Duncansville, Pennsylvania, on 17 October 1965. Shown here are four PRR passenger engines. The lead locomotive is #5898, an EP-22 built by EMD in 1951 and rated at 2,250 horsepower. They are pulling the very first "Horseshoe Curve Excursion" sponsored by the Lancaster Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. As of 04 July 2016, or 51 years later, engine #5898 ~ aged 65 ~ is in active excursion service with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, & Southern Railway at Jackson, Missouri! |