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A new photo-laden book about Altoona’s railroad history may be one of the few positives to come out of the myriad cancellations in 2020.
Ken Kobus of Pittsburgh and Gary C. Rauch of Boulder, Colorado, recently published “The Pennsylvania Railroad’s Muleshoe, Horseshoe, Altoona and Beyond,” a 148 page, stitched, softcover, landscape-format book with 10 pages of text and more than 200 photos and maps, including many in color. Photographs range from the 1860s through the early 1970s.
Published by the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society, the book is available at https://prrths.org and will begin shipping Tuesday.
“The book is intended to be accessible to people of all degrees of interest in the subject, and so we did not assume a lot of prior knowledge,” Rauch stated in an email. “At the same time, as we and others dug into the subject further, bouncing questions around, and digging some more, what we came up with will be of i