On Sunday, Oct. 21, 1957, the fires in the last steam locomotives assigned to the Pennsylvania Railroad's Northumberland roundhouse were allowed to die, bringing to a close an era that had begun more ...
The Lindbergh Engine, a last-of-its-kind steam locomotive, is ready once again for public view. The engine will be dedicated Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg. The ...
The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania has met a $50,000 matching grant challenge by the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society, with funds designated for the preservation of five historic ...
The Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, founded in 1921, is the first organization to focus on railroad history. Its purpose is to promote research, writing, and public knowledge about all ...
The Engineering News and American Contract Journal ran a story about the Pennsylvania Railroad in Schuylkill County in 1885. “Work on the Schuylkill branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad is being pushed ...
Steam Engine Hill at Williams Grove in Monroe Township, Cumberland County, is alive this weekend with just about every kind of tractor that ever plowed a field or hauled a wagon as part of the ...
Baltimore reveres its railroad traditions, yet its smallest lines have captured an outsized emotional attachment. The old Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad, called the Ma & Pa or just the M&P, ...