Horseshoe Curve

Summary

Horseshoe Curve is a railway line^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.5% of railway_line entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (342 views/month, #16 of 3,177).^[2]

Key Facts

• Horseshoe Curve is located in Logan Township^[3].
• Horseshoe Curve is in the country of United States^[4].
• Horseshoe Curve's image is recorded as Horseshoe Curve aerial photo, March 2006.jpg^[5].
• Horseshoe Curve's instance of is recorded as railway line^[6].
• Horseshoe Curve's instance of is recorded as horseshoe curve^[7].
• Horseshoe Curve's operator is recorded as Conrail^[8].
• Horseshoe Curve's operator is recorded as Norfolk Southern Railway^[9].
• Horseshoe Curve's Commons category is recorded as Horseshoe Curve^[10].
• Horseshoe Curve's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 40.497639, 'lon': -78.484167}^[11].
• Horseshoe Curve's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02_8vs^[12].
• Horseshoe Curve's NRHP reference number is recorded as 66000647^[13].
• Horseshoe Curve's heritage designation is recorded as National Historic Landmark^[14].
• Horseshoe Curve's heritage designation is recorded as National Register of Historic Places listed place^[15].
• Horseshoe Curve's heritage designation is recorded as Historic Civil Engineering Landmark^[16].
• Horseshoe Curve's GeoNames ID is recorded as 5194312^[17].
• Horseshoe Curve's carries thoroughfare is recorded as Pittsburgh Line^[18].
• Horseshoe Curve's directions is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'west of Altoona on Kittanning Point Road'}^[19].
• Horseshoe Curve's ASCE Historical Civil Engineering Landmark ID is recorded as horseshoe-curve-pennsylvania-rr^[20].
• Horseshoe Curve's Fandom article ID is recorded as train-sim-world:Horseshoe_Curve^[21].
• Horseshoe Curve's Atlas Obscura place ID is recorded as horseshoe-curve^[22].

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Geography

Horseshoe Curve is in the country of United States^[4]. It is located in Logan Township^[3].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include railway line^[6] and horseshoe curve^[7]. Heritage statuses include National Historic Landmark^[14], National Register of Historic Places listed place^[15], and Historic Civil Engineering Landmark^[16].

Why It Matters

Horseshoe Curve ranks in the top 0.5% of railway_line entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (342 views/month, #16 of 3,177).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[23]