Horseshoe Curve is about a 10-mile drive from the Amtrak stop, but driving up there if not familiar requires GPS or map-reading skill. Altoona does have several taxicab companies, it would be interesting to compare cost/availability with UBER. I would think a taxi driver would be more willing to leave you at the curve for a couple of hours than a possibly distracted Generation Z UBER driver.
Personally I'd rent a budget car, for more flexibility and given that the OP will have 7 hours to kill between trains.
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