What's Next For VHS ‘23: The Railroads
Owen Merle will tell anyone who listens that he has a passion for trains. Always has. For the next four years, the 2023 graduate of Verona High Sch...
Owen Merle will tell anyone who listens that he has a passion for trains. Always has. For the next four years, the 2023 graduate of Verona High School will be building on that passion at a college located near one of the biggest milestones in American railroad innovation. Merle is enrolled at Penn State Altoona, which offers the country's first and only four-year major in rail transportation engineering, both freight and passenger. The campus is about two miles, as the crow flies, from Horseshoe Curve, a triple-track bend that has been getting trains up and over Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains since 1854.