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Muleshoe Curve

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Coordinates: 40°26′06″N 78°31′12″W / 40.4350°N 78.5200°W / 40.4350; -78.5200
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Muleshoe Curve is a curve of track on the former Pennsylvania Railroad, located near Duncansville, Pennsylvania. It never reached the same amount of popularity as the nearby Horseshoe Curve, located 4.34 mi (7 km) north of Muleshoe curve. This was mainly due to it being merely a secondary route between Spruce Creek and Gallitzin. Built in 1850s by the state of Pennsylvania as part of the New Portage Railroad (itself built to bypass the inclined planes of the Allegheny Portage Railroad). Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) purchased the line (and the curve) in 1857 and promptly closed it, as the PRR already had their own line in the region. Between 1904 and its closure, the line was used by PRR as a single track freight bypass, and renamed in honour of the curve. After the railroad was taken over by Conrail in 1981, the curve was permanently abandoned.

40°26′06″N 78°31′12″W / 40.4350°N 78.5200°W / 40.4350; -78.5200

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