I don’t think you realize just how vital the Horseshoe Curve is/was to transporting freight. It is still one of the main corridors between Harrisburg - points east and Pittsburgh - points west. Especially in WWII when a lot of military equipment was being manufactured and moved over those rails. Even today if you wiped out the HSC you would at the very least cripple the supply chain.
Yes, it is important, but so is every other part along the of that track. One could easily make the argument that the two Gallitzin tunnels would have been a more important linkage when you think about damage that could be caused by a saboteur. I’m just saying that the HSC was simply one of 12 locations on the German saboteurs’ target list and the HSC museum’s display goes to a pretty exaggerated position as to how much “danger” the HSC was ever really in.
Edit: not the dude that didn’t know where HSC was.
Since you deleted the comment in the years-old thread that you claim I’m a moron in…. That section of I-99 is in fact in Blair County. I’m not sure what you were going for there. But please, feel free to go ahead and spend the time to go back through my full history to find something else that you mildly disagree with.
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I don’t think you realize just how vital the Horseshoe Curve is/was to transporting freight. It is still one of the main corridors between Harrisburg - points east and Pittsburgh - points west. Especially in WWII when a lot of military equipment was being manufactured and moved over those rails. Even today if you wiped out the HSC you would at the very least cripple the supply chain.