This September marked 175 years since work began on maintenance shops for the Pennsylvania Railroad in what became the brand new town of Altoona. The town was built for one purpose: to keep America ...
Frankford Junction, the scene of Tuesday night's Amtrak train derailment that killed five people, was the scene 72 years ago of one of the deadliest rail disasters in U.S. history. On Sept. 6, 1943, ...