Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Engineering News and American Contract Journal ran a story about the Pennsylvania Railroad in Schuylkill County in 1885. “Work ...

ALTOONA, Pa. (WJAC) — As we've mentioned in past segments of our Amazing America 250 series, trains and railroads were vital when it came to the formation of cities, states, and the nation as a whole.

A portion of what was once the Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad curves around a former flour mill in York County. Fewer Pennsylvanians ride the state’s rail these days, but a network of train lovers ...

The dieselization of the Pennsylvania Railroad did not do any favors for the city of Altoona, according to Albert Churella, a history professor at Kennesaw State University, who penned a three-book ...

MUNCIE, Ind. – A few weeks ago, the Cardinal Greenways and Muncie Sanitary District opened the rehabilitated Pennsylvania Railroad bridge at McCulloch Trailhead. The span was restored this year to ...

As casually as a switching engineman shunting a string of milk cars into a siding, the Pennsylvania Railroad announced last week that it will lop 40 passenger trains off its schedules, effective July ...

Before there was the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), there were the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR or “the Pennsy”) and the Philadelphia & Reading, generally known as the ...

In October 1959, 65 years ago, the Pottsville Republican published a week-long series in observance of the paper’s 75th anniversary. Individual copies of the papers are not easy to come by. And copies ...