Trains

The Yardbirds cover of Howlin' Wolf's Smoke Stack and Lightning about a steam engine flying down the track at night, sparks flying from the stack.



Howlin' Wolfe called this "the definitive version of his song".​

 

Here's what's left of the Allegheny Portage Railroad.
The first railroad to climb over the Allegheny mountains.
It was constructed in 1833 to move canal boats over the mountains via rail using mobile and stationary cable engines..

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Here's what replaced it

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Horseshoe Curve was built in 1854 "with picks and shovels, horses and drags"
The Curve was one of the eight engineering marvels of the world.

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