ABOVE: The first day’s trip left Enola at dawn, crossing the bridge at Duncannon just before the sun popped over the mountains on the east side of the Susquehanna River. MITCH GOLDMAN PHOTO LEFT: With its work about finished, the 765 and its train deadhead to Enola after dropping passengers at Lewistown on the last day of trips on Memorial Day. The train rolls off the final miles of the weekend at Newport. STEVE BARRY PHOTO
left just behind 25Z and was overtaking the freight on the middle track as the train rounded the Curve. The 50 or more photographers on the ledge could only see 765 through the gaps in the double-stacked containers as it went past (see FINAL FRAME in last month’s is- sue of R&R).
Steam has returned to Horseshoe Curve at long last, and there is no rea- son to believe it won’t happen again in
2014. Back when Norfolk Southern was trying to buy Conrail from the govern- ment in the early 1980s (the “Let Con- rail Be Conrail” years), CEO Robert Claytor tried to recruit railfan support for the merger by promising that Nor- folk & Western J-Class No. 611 would traverse Horseshoe Curve as part of the NS Steam Program. Here we are three decades later and steam has fi- nally returned to the Curve. As an
aside, N&W 611 is close to returning to the rails after being retired in 1994. perhaps Robert Claytor’s promise may come to fruition. But that’s another sto- ry for another day...
See MARKERS on page 58 for more de- tails about the proposed restoration and operation of N&W 611.
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