Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Altoona, Pennsylvania became the city that it is thanks to the Pennsylvania Railroad, which needed a base from which to build the world-famous Horseshoe Curve through the Allegheny Mountains. But building up Altoona also led to the creation of something very, very strange in one hotel's kitchen...

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