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Steam & Excursion > Mountain HippoDate: 03/27/26 14:18 Mountain Hippo Author: MacBeau The 4586, a 1923 Baldwin I1s, lifts a westbound (possibly ore) toward Gallitzin with the helper visible but unidentified, 1930.
Photo credit John S. Powell and the Library of Congress, Bruce Fales collection Be of good cheer, —Mac www.lowellamrine.com  Date: 03/27/26 15:24 Re: Mountain Hippo Author: refarkas Another first-rate historic view.
Bob Date: 03/27/26 20:43 Re: Mountain Hippo Author: timz More likely coal empties? Trainloads of ore didn't go west then, did they?
Date: 03/27/26 21:43 Re: Mountain Hippo Author: jgilmore timz Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > More likely coal empties? Trainloads of ore didn't > go west then, did they? Lots of imported ore from Philly went west to interior mills like Johnstown, PA, and others. This even continued into CR... JG Date: 03/28/26 05:50 Re: Mountain Hippo Author: timz PRR built the Greenwich ore pier in the 1950s, expecting lots of new import ore. How much ore went ship to rail at Philadelphia before that?
Date: 03/28/26 16:05 Re: Mountain Hippo Author: perklocal Looks like along Kittanning Resovoir just below Horseshoe Curve.
Date: 03/28/26 16:13 Re: Mountain Hippo Author: RBMN-ENGR perklocal Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Looks like along Kittanning Resovoir just below > Horseshoe Curve. Agreed. Is this the area known as Scotch Run? Posted from Android Chris Bost Leesport, PA Date: 03/28/26 22:19 Re: Mountain Hippo Author: Kemacprr If that was a loaded ore train there would be more than one I-1 on the point of that train. Probably empties headed west for loading. -- Ken
Date: 03/29/26 11:22 Re: Mountain Hippo Author: timz The curve halfway along the train must be this one
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