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By Faith Finfrock | September 25, 2025

Conrail 6070, a former Erie Lackawanna SD45, assists a westbound freight up Pennsylvania’s Horseshoe Curve on July 25, 1981, just a few months after removal of one of the Curve’s four tracks.

Photo by Robert S. McGonigal

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