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its 40th birthday. At least one Canadi- an Pacific G5 headed west towards a new home on the Ohio Central. And the most famous steam locomotive on Horseshoe Curve in the post-steam era, Pennsylvania Railroad K4s No. 1361, went halfway around the Curve in 1985 when it was removed from its display track at Kittanning Point.


Since the 1970s, however, there have been no chances for the general public to ride behind steam over Horseshoe


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For the last public trips over Horseshoe featuring a steam locomotive, you have to go all the way back to 1977...


Curve. The railfan world was sent all a- buzz in 2012, however, when Norfolk Southern leased Nickel Plate 765 from the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical So- ciety for a series of employee trips in


the northeast; the series included a set of trips out of Pittsburgh and a set of trips out of Harrisburg, which meant the restored Berkshire would lead a deadhead move around Horseshoe


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