Icons on parade! Wow, it must have been fantastic to have been there and then. Thanks for sharing this. The T-1 was a treat!

Thank you for sharing. I was born five years too late to ride behind those sleek diesels or see those great steam monsters.

The sheer amount of trains, esp passenger, that passed the Curve in that era was staggering!

WAY cool! I especially liked one of the last scenes with the steam helpers shoving away on a westbound in the distance down the straightaway while an eastbound leans into The Curve. SO glad I managed to get there to see it in person, if only the one time. The great Pennsylvania Railroad. 👍✅

What a treat to be able to see this, thank you for digitizing and sharing. It's wonderful.

Thanks for uploading this video! It was before my time...but it would have been fantastic to have spent days there watching the endless variety of trains.

J1 on the head end, and two j1s pushing, what a sight. Thank you for the upload.

When I was a lad my parents would take me to the 'curve' it was still 4 track and shortly after Penn Central days fresh into the Conrail days there was a huge difference of locomotives , big thundering ALCo locomotives, EMDs , G.E. as well I was too young to really identify those locomotives. My parents ( WW2 generation) would tell me stories of the Pennsy days my dad was a B&O fan as well. I was born to late for the Steam days, the K4 sat there on the hill as testament to the city of Altoona , wish PRR would have kept a few of those Ts and especially the J1's because the Pennsy always added their touch to those fantastic C.& O. (Texas types) engines. Thanks for the video for all of us that love those excellent but now extinct locomotives.

Like many others say, if only i could've seen this, I really wish there wasn't as much foliage as there is now, being able to see everything easily like in this video would be awesome

Some great old memories in this film

Cool seeing a T1 still running in 1951

Thanks for posting this. My great great uncle was the first engineer to take a train around the curve. I have a pretty cool news article about it. I should probably do a video now that I think about it.

Love the guys on the roof of the car.

The T-1 at 8:06 is beautiful

Great stuff - what a variety of power!

miss the plain bearing journal boxes.

Coal smoke and brake dust that had to have been amazing to see

That’s quite a bit of J1 action! And I don’t blame the tape for not having sound. It’s old.

Hasn't changed a great deal in the intervening years!

Thanks for sharing

Those decopods in this video would chew up at big boy and spit it out.

A T-1 in 1951. Far out.

How was the photographer able to get so close to the tracks/trains?

They really heated up some brake shoes back then

02:00 is something burning?

whats with the flames?

4 track?